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Source: https://asiatimes.com/2021/11/the-palestine-question-cannot-be-viewed-through-an-old-lens/
Chinese Public Opinion and the Palestinian Question
(Asia Times-Hong Kong) Fan Hongda - Until the adoption of the UN resolution on the partition of Palestine in 1947, at the urging of the major powers, Palestinians were a people ruled by others, never having established their own independent state. The Arab states' collective boycott and rejection of Resolution 181 pushed the Palestinians even further away from establishing an independent state. Israel will never give up eastern Jerusalem, and no Israeli decision-maker will ever order a withdrawal from the West Bank's Jewish communities. The fact remains that one of the world's most widely influential books - the Bible - makes their case. How can a Zionist ignore the Bible's account of the Jews and their forefathers and deny the connection between the Jewish people and the land? Furthermore, Israel is a state that was established under international law and in accordance with UN resolutions, and Israel's presence in the West Bank is the result of wars that the Arab states waged against it; most of the territories were won from previous occupiers, namely Jordan and Egypt. The plight of the Palestinians today is clearly not the fault of Israel alone. The writer is a professor at the Middle East Studies Institute of Shanghai International Studies University.