Second Great Zionist Fraud

I noticed a particularly egregious error by Professor Stephen Walt (The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy) in a blog entry entitled On Goldberg and Douthat when he writes:

1948: Palestinian Arabs attack nascent Jewish state; several Arab states eventually join in. Zionists/Israelis win, and approximately 700,000 Palestinians are expelled or flee from the new Jewish state.

In point of fact, simultaneously with accepting the November 1947 UN GA Partition Proposal, the Zionist leadership green-lighted the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population and put out a false story through Jewish gatekeepers and facilitators in the US and British newspapers.

From the names of the Zionist military operations, (e.g., biur hametz, burning of the [ritually impure] leaven), I believe mass murder of the native Palestinian population was intended.

While Palestinians remembering the Special Night Squads of the 30s organized defensively, Palestinian leaders, who were in exile or jail, were in no position to accept or reject the proposal, and the Palestinian population adopted a wait and see attitude because the Palestinian leadership had already accepted a 55% Palestinian 45% Jewish population ratio as Rafael Medoff, who is admirer of Jabtinsky as well as a modern Jabotinskian Zionist, points out on pp. 93-94 of his book entitled Baksheesh Diplomacy.

If all 300,000 Jewish DPs had joined the 600,000 Jews already resident, the Palestinian-Jewish division would have been a 57:43 ratio, with which Palestinians had no problem in a single democratic state.

Palestinians simply could not accept a partition of the country

• that divided families and clans,
• that separated farmers from their lands, and
• that put so many Palestinians under the control of Zionists, who had a record of violent bloodthirstiness since the 19-naughts. (See Timeline.)

The Palestinian position was hardly unreasonable.

The commonly believed narrative of the Palestinian rejection of the UN Partition Proposal constitutes the Second Great Zionist Fraud. I describe the Primary Zionist Fraud in Every Israel Advocate a Madoff.

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