shafique wrote:rudeboy - please read my resurrected thread on the UN debate on the formation of Israel.
Note it does say that 300,000 jews were given refuge in Palestine between the wars, and continued to do so when Britain, the US and Canada all closed their borders.
The warnings of the consequences of the injustice of the partition - the way it disadvantaged the Palestinians - was clearly prophetic. The tragedy is that the consequences were obvious given the facts, but the vote went in Israel's favour anyway.
The vote was scheduled for the day of the speech given, but it was postponed and overnight the US lobbied for votes in favour of the resolution - and the rest is history. It is said that if the vote was taken after this speech, it would have gone the other way. But that is beside the point now - what remains is the list of the injustices of the 1948 borders of Israel. In 1967 the land was expanded quite considerably - compounding the injustice.
Cheers,
Shafique
shaf i know what happened but dutchman didnt know about it so was explaining it to him. do remember that the jews have expanded their lands till date as to compared to 1947 when they had little land or territory. they also have the top jobs, top salaries and even have taken over land which originally used to belong to some palestinian.
I remember reading about the Berlin Wall separating east and west germany and how ppl in Europe werent happy about it. Theres a similar wall in Palestine but the sad fact is no1 in Europe or USA cares about that Wall instead they all support it. lol
And the same thing is happening in Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Where a majority of the muslims are not getting National self determination which is the main objectives of UN. hell UN isnt even in Kashmir so plz dont talk about UN cos its nothing but piece of bullocks.
But the sad thing is UN does nothing it is just a way of USA to carry out its foreign policies. What I would really luv to see is a Muslim League or something with its own Army but I know that wont happen cos most of the muslim leaders are just like Kofi Anan
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