Arabs erred in rejecting 1947 Palestine partition, says Joint List head

He tried to understand the Arabs’ decision within the context that they were “the natives of this place, and suddenly came the Jews with the Zionist idea of a Jewish home – a Jewish home, not a home of all its citizens, but a Jewish home with a story of two thousand years.”

 

This is not an entirely new position – the Hadash party, part of the Joint List, confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Monday that the party accepted the partition plan at the time. Prof. Elie Rekhess, a top scholar about Arabs in Israel told the newspaper that this was because the party’s Communist patron, the Soviet Union, supported the plan and later recognized the State of Israel.

 

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