Why Isn’t There a Palestinian State? | 5 Minute Video
Why don’t the Palestinians have their own country? Is it the fault of Israel? Of the Palestinians? Of both parties? David Brog, Executive Director of the Maccabee Task Force, shares the surprising answers.
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If Israel just allowed the Palestinians to have a state of their own, there would be peace in the Middle East, right? That’s what you hear from UN ambassadors, European diplomats and most college professors.
But what if I told you that Israel has already offered the Palestinians a state of their own – and not just once, but on five separate occasions?
Don’t believe me?
Let’s review the record.
After the breakup of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, Britain took control of most of the Middle East, including the area that constitutes modern Israel.
Seventeen years later, in 1936, the Arabs rebelled against the British, and against their Jewish neighbors.
The British formed a task force – the Peel Commission – to study the cause of the rebellion. The commission concluded that the reason for the violence was that two peoples – Jews and Arabs – wanted to govern the same land.
The answer, the Peel Commission concluded, would be to create two independent states – one for the Jews, and one for the Arabs. A two-state solution. The suggested split was heavily in favor of the Arabs. The British offered them 80 percent of the disputed territory; the Jews, the remaining 20 percent. Yet, despite the tiny size of their proposed state, the Jews voted to accept this offer. But the Arabs rejected it and resumed their violent rebellion. Rejection number one.
Ten years later, in 1947, the British asked the United Nations to find a new solution to the continuing tensions. Like the Peel Commission, the UN decided that the best way to resolve the conflict was to divide the land.
On November 7, 1947, the UN voted to create two states. Again, the Jews accepted the offer. And again, the Arabs rejected it, only this time, they did so by launching an all-out war. Rejection number two.
Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria joined the conflict. But they failed. Israel won the war, and got on with the business of building a new nation. Most of the land set aside by the UN for an Arab state – the West Bank and east Jerusalem – became occupied territory; occupied not by Israel, but by Jordan.
Twenty years later, in 1967, the Arabs, led this time by Egypt and joined by Syria and Jordan, once again sought to destroy the Jewish State.
The 1967 conflict, known as the Six Day War, ended in a stunning victory for Israel. Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as the area known as the Gaza Strip, fell into Israel’s hands. The government split over what to do with this new territory. Half wanted to return the West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt in exchange for peace. The other half wanted to give it to the region’s Arabs, who had begun referring to themselves as the Palestinians, in the hope that they would ultimately build their own state there.
Neither initiative got very far. A few months later, the Arab League met in Sudan and issued its infamous “Three No’s:” No peace with Israel. No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with Israel. Again, a two-state solution was dismissed by the Arabs, making this rejection number three.
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Israel has never agreed to Palestinian self-determination
1936 – There is documented evidence the Zionists never agreed and the only people that did planned to take more land, oh and the Palestinians offered a single Secular state, which Zionists rejected
1947 – Israel drove Palestinians from their own lands, documented in the notes of Israel's own PM, who also admitted colonial plans
1967 – Israel started a war with OTHER Arab states and took the rest of the Palestinian petition, they then refused to let the Palestinians self govern (you said so in your own video)
2000 – They offered the PLO Occupation-Lite with Israel having the right to put military outposts all over and Bibi said he would declare settlements to be military outposts (in video evidence)
2005 – They turned Gaza into a Open Air Prison and when Gazans protested, Israeli snipers crippled men, women and children (documented in Israel's own media)
You have no references to your claims and the references I refer to refute everything this video states.
You wouldn't give 1% of your home to a homeless person/ refugee, why would arabs agree to that. Just because a secular jew (Balfour,) decided upon that, he name-drops Palestine in his decelration. Arabs were a predominant majority even in the territories given to jews. If Balfour decided upon the east coast of America, and forced jewish migration and jewish militias came to America. As an American would you negotiate with Jews? and give them a disproportionate piece of land to their population? Would if be anti-smetic for the US army to fight Jewish militia those who are backed by foreign entities?
Per Abba Eban (1975): "The Arabs never missed a chance to miss a chance"
so old yet so damn true
Not one mention of the Nakba.
This video is biased in favour of Israel.
(((they))) cry in pain as (((they))) strike you.
1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, NOT a Palestinian state!
2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, NOT a Palestinian state!
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, NOT a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, NOT a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, NOT a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, NOT a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, NOT a Palestinian state.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, NOT a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, NOT a Palestinian state.
10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, NOT a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, NOT a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, NOT a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, NOT a Palestinian state.
14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, NOT a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, NOT a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, NOT a Palestinian state.
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, NOT a Palestinian state.
18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, NOT a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, NOT a Palestinian state.
20. Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything, EXCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
Too much, no no no, leads you to nothing, 000.
❤WHAT LITTERATURE THESE POLITICIANS AND STUDENT AND PROFESSORS ARE READING😢 SO STUPID!!😢
The creator of PragerU is a Jew. This is nothing but propaganda!!!
Worst video if you want really to know the Truth
Worst video ever, a bad misleading video, so many falses shown as facts.
European and refugees from all over the world, came to occupied Palestine, and by the help of the occupiers they took lands weapons and homes, killed and kicked people from their lands, and you are asking them to accept it, OMG!!!
Do you think that will work!
The Arabs stole territories in Africa and made them their countries. They are currently funding the greatest genocide in African countries without condemnation from the world
The jewish land Judea existed long before the arabs stole the land from the jews.
So y’all in the comments basically agreeing it’s okay for someone to drop a bunch of people off to your house and you won’t fight them to have your house back? You’ll agree to split the house with them? Okay
Because scumbags do not deserve their own state.
There must be something else written in these “deals” or some fine print that we’re not being told about
Offers were worse and worse
Bummer!
Lies
Arab nazis strike again:)
why should we believe you ?You are the same people who sent illegal prisoners to Australia and supported the apartheid system in South African To be honest, you're the problem to this universe, especially Brtish, Americans,
Ask the native Americans "How land for peace" worked out for them.
Wholeheartedly agree. The Palestinians want to eliminate Israel and nothing else will suffice in their minds. They don't even care about their own people.
This aged like fine Chardonnay. The palestinians and arab league do not want peace, they want destruction of israel.