By Neill Lochery
This ebook examines the genuine background of the clash and asks what may perhaps encourage any such comic strip or no matter if any fact contributes to this. may still Israel shoulder the blame, or are the realities of the clash way more complex?. and the way can a geographically tiny country be idea to have the sort of profound impact on global politics?
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So why did it happen, and what was the rationale behind it? The lack of a well-organised and politically astute leadership is central to the failure. Palestine was hierarchical: a few select families set and controlled the political agenda. This group believed that by not co-operating on any negotiations with the Zionists they could prevent the birth of a Jewish state. When this strategy failed spectacularly at the United Nations in 1947 they resorted almost exclusively to the military strategy of force, believing that they, along with their Arab brothers, could drive the Zionists out of Palestine – thereby allowing the creation of a Palestinian state in all the lands of the British Mandate of Palestine.
Ben-Gurion, concerned over a possible total collapse of the Egyptian regime, and keen to avoid taking undue risks, ordered Israeli forces to be withdrawn from the Sinai by the following day. The Israeli actions in the south were the final part in securing control of all the territory that had been proposed to the Jews in the UNSCOP Partition Plan. Israel gained 35 WHY BLAME ISRAEL? some 2,500 square miles of territory in addition to that proposed in the original plan. Egypt and Jordan divided up the remaining land between themselves.
Had King Abdullah of Jordan not been assassinated by a Palestinian as he entered the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem in July 1951, then he might have been the first Arab leader to make peace with the Jewish state, though he faced considerable opposition from his subjects to any deal with Israel. In many ways, King Abdullah’s difficulties in his peace-making attempts mirrored the difficulties of the Camp David Summit in 2000. Leaders with little or no mandate from their respective constituencies, negotiating with one eye on their own political legacy, do not make good ingredients for successful peacemaking.