The AP simply cannot write an article that mentions the palestinians without also bashing Israel. But it’s more than simple bashing; it’s also outright lying about facts.
Armed Palestinians have long been a source of dangerous instability and violence in Lebanon. But some Palestinians – who came here as refugees after the 1948 war that created Israel – have strong feelings against surrendering any weapons amid Lebanon’s rapidly changing political climate.
The State of Israel was created by the United Nations. The war in 1948 was because the Arab nations refused to accept the UN Resolution that partitioned the British Mandate of Palestine. But you can’t expect AP fact-checkers to know something as obscure as, well, history. I mean, really. 57 years ago? History is hard.
So let’s see how well they do with more recent history.
The commander of the mainstream guerrilla Fatah faction in Ein el-Hilweh, Col. Khaled Aref, says Palestinians need weapons in the camps because of the volatility of the security situation, but he agreed the weapons should be regulated.
“If we have to die, at least let us die with honor. … Does the world expect us to surrender and be slaughtered like sheep without any kind of resistance, like in 1982?” he asked, referring to the massacres of hundreds in Beirut refugee camps that year by pro-Israeli militiamen.
You see, the AP can’t even name the “pro-Israeli militiamen,” who were otherwise known as Christian Phalangists–the other side in the Lebanese Civil War.
More media bias, courtesy of your “impartial” media. Sorry, I mean “objective.” No, really. You can stop laughing now.
Arab and other propagandists alleging ‘massacres’ by Israel continually jump up and down over Shabra and Shatilla and Deir Yassin – the latter, of course, dredged up from 1948. I haven’t gone right through the following account of Deir Yassin, but it appears well-researched:
http://www.zoa.org/pubs/DeirYassin.htm
On Shabra and Shatilla, Google’s third entry is from the Qatar ‘News’ Agency:
(Google dissociates itself from QNA and the report is unavailable.)
“….a book documenting events of Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1992 and the Shabra and Shatilla massacre committed then by Israeli invading troops….”
[My emphasis. Apart from the lie, they can’t even get the date right.]
These people wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them in the face.
Both of you are wrong :-) The partition resolution is non-binding, becoming binding in Israel only as a prerequisite for Israel joining the UN.
I’d say that the State of Israel was both declared and created by the Jews of Palestine, and subsequently recognized by the US, the USSR, the UN, and most of its non-Arab members.
General Assembly Resolution 181 did not call for the creation of an independent Jewish state; it called for the creation of an Economic Union of Palestine consisting of a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a corpus separatum for Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and their surroundings. The Arabs rejected the proposal, and the Security Council never signed on. Israel’s declaration of independence stipulates the Jewish State’s willingness to implement the General Assembly’s Economic Union of Palestine proposal, but that commitment was pretty cheap because the proposal was already dead and buried.
While I would not say that Israel was created by war, there’s no denying that it was delimited by war: its de facto boundaries emerged from the ceasefire agreements, not from the maps incorporated in GA 181.