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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (99786)	6/1/2003 4:58:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Israel did not exist in 1947. The UN partition vote that created it was in November 1947 and the Yishuv, the government of the future state of Israel, accepted the partition. The creation of the two Palestinian states was scheduled for May 15, 1948 at the end of the British Mandate. Did you ever learn the history dates that you are preaching about? You still have not addressed the point that "... to this day, more than five decades later, Israel is the only country in the world, the only member of the UN that refuses to accept any identified boundaries...." That's because it's the only country in the world who has neighbors that refuse to recognize its existence. The two conditions are closely interelated, as they effectively prevented negotiations that would normally have ocurred after a war regarding the annexation or return of conquered territories. The territories went into a limbo state of disputed occupation because the Arab states refused to negotiate after 1967 and Israel was unwilling to simply return all the territories without recognition or a peace treaty. In effect, that would have meant giving the Arab states a do-over on the whole war. It was the Arabs, not the Israelis, who rejected resolution 242 in 1967. Just as it is the Arabs who demand, "Now give us the deal we rejected thirty years ago".