(Times of Israel) Mitchell Bard - Just two months ago, 180 countries voted in favor of Palestinian statehood at the UN, but they have not adopted a resolution condemning the brutal slaughter of more than 700 Palestinians in Syria. If Israel were responsible for what is happening to the Palestinians, the UN would have acted immediately, but the inconvenient truth is that no one really cares about the Palestinians - unless Jews are involved. In 1948, the Arab states did not invade to help the Palestinians. They intended to carve up Palestine for themselves, not to create a Palestinian state. From 1949 until 1967, Egypt and Jordan could have given Gaza and the West Bank to the Palestinians for a state. Neither did, but no one in the world cared because the occupiers were Arabs. The writer is executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.
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