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Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/03/undeserving-case-for-a-palestinian-state
Undeserving Case for a Palestinian State
(Toronto Sun-Canada) Salim Mansur - In his recent plea in the New York Times for "The Long Overdue Palestinian State," PA President Mahmoud Abbas recalls the "nakba" (or catastrophe) of Palestinian loss in 1948. This is the preferred Arab narrative in which Palestinians are victims of Western powers and Zionist Jews through the agency of the UN. Palestinians cannot, and will not, acknowledge that what occurred in 1947-48 came about as a result of the catastrophic miscalculation on the part of their leadership and Arab states. Within a few hours of Israel's independence in May 1948, Arab armies invaded the Jewish state. Those who plan war and initiate it must know there are consequences both in victory and in defeat. What no one asks is why Palestinian rejection of the UN's 1947 plan and Arab aggression against Israel merit reward of the same more than six decades later? Why do 355 million Arabs need 22 states when there is only one China and one India with their respective population of more than a billion people in each state? The reason Palestinians will receive the General Assembly's undeserving support is due to the real, though unstated, institutionalized bigotry inside the world body that once voted Zionism as a form of racism. Against such bigotry there is no appeal for fairness.