"The original United Nations Partition Plan of 1947, a.k.a. Resolution 181 – on which Israel bases its legitimacy - called for a future Government of Palestine, the creation of Independent Arab and Jewish States within Palestine, and a Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem. In addition there was to be freedom of movement for both sides and no unnecessary transfers of populations. In cases where eminent domain was necessary, those transferred were to be compensated.
Instead, following the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, eighty percent of the Palestinian population was ethnically cleaned from historic Palestine, with Israel staking claim to seventy-eight percent of their land. The fledgling government then passed “Absentee Property Laws” declaring all Palestinian Arabs “absent” from their property, even those who remained. At that time, Palestinian land, property, and bank accounts were transferred to the state of Israel. To this day, the Palestinian refugee population is the largest in the world, with only one right guaranteed, the Right of Return.
On May 5, 1949, at the time the application of Israel for admission to membership in the United Nations was under consideration, a meeting of the General Assembly was held at Lake Success, New York. The assembled rebuked Israeli actions by reiterating that “the State of Israel, in its present form, directly contravened the previous recommendations of the United Nations in at least three important respects: in its attitude on the problem of Arab refugees, on the delimitation of its territorial boundaries, and on the question of Jerusalem.\"
The General Assembly statement continued, \"The United Nations had certainly not intended that the Jewish State should rid itself of its Arab citizens. On the contrary, section C of part I of the Assembly\'s 1947 resolution had explicitly provided guarantees of minority rights in each of the two States. For example, it had prohibited the expropriation of land owned by an Arab in the Jewish State except for public purposes, and then only upon payment of full compensation.”
“Yet the fact was that 90 per cent of the Arab population of Israel had been driven outside its boundaries by military operations, had been forced to seek refuge in neighboring Arab territories, had been reduced to misery and destitution, and had been prevented by Israel from returning to their homes. Their homes and property had been seized and were being used by thousands of European Jewish immigrants...”
“Surely the Jews, who claimed that they had always been an uprooted people whose homelessness had driven them to fight for their ancient home, could not in all justice and conscience seek to remedy that uprooting by inflicting it upon others,\" the United Nations documents affirms."
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