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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (99789)	6/1/2003 5:16:18 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You did it again. I referred to the May 14, 1948 reading of "...Declaration of Independence of the Jewish State...." Of course Israel accepted the UN partition, but in 1948 they did not recognize any borders both prior to and after the Arab attack on Israel. These attacks happened on the same day as the declaration was read, not when the declaration was written. Remember too that"...On April 9, 1948, the Irgun terrorist organization, commanded by Menachen Begin, as a part of an increased campaign of violence, attacked the village of Deir Yasin, killing 254 Palestinian men, women and children. The intention was to terrify the Palestinians into leaving their land. Ten thousand Palestinians did leave the country in fear of their lives. Begin later declared: "There would have been no State of Israel without Deir Yasin." Finally I'll repeat the quote that you do not want to comment on: "The new state had no boundaries and, 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. It is worthy of note that Israel was established as a state for the "Jewish People," and not as the state of its citizens. The UN partition plan, however, did identify the boundaries on a map, generally described as (1) a narrow strip of coast, including the ports of Haifa and Tel Aviv, but leaving Jaffa and Acre to the Palestinians, (2) most of the Negeb, a large arid sector in the south, and (3) eastern Galilee around Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee). Israel, without its borders, received immediate recognition by the United States and Russia.... An Armistice was signed in January 1949, ending the first Arab-Israeli War, by which Israel increased by over 40% the size of its partitioned territory. This came to be known as Green Line Israel, the pre 1967-borders. In January 1949 Israel conducted elections for its parliament, the Knesset ("assembly" in Hebrew), and its government was formed. On May 11, 1949 Israel was admitted to the UN. Within a year, 40 nations recognized the borderless state."