Quote from dddooo:
the majority of the Jews and Jewish groups accepted the proposal, in particular the Jewish Agency, which was the Jewish state-in-formation. A minority of extreme nationalist Jewish groups like Menachem Begin's Irgun Tsvai Leumi and Yitzhak Shamir's Lehi, (known as the Stern Gang) which had been fighting the British, rejected it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_UN_Partition_Plan
What part of "a vast majority of jews " do you not understand?
Well, well, well!! I see that you are using the wikipedia site again!! Let me guess, you wrote the above piece before you pasted it here??
But you know what, I will ASSUME that you did not and that another person on that site wrote it.
In 1947, was there any consensus that the majority of Jews accepted the proposal??
In 1947, the Jewish population in Palestine was 608,000 (35% of the total population according to British consensus)were granted 55% of the land while 1,237,000 Palestinians were granted 45%.
Afterward, against the british well, hundreds of thousands of Haganah ready sympathizers arrived at our beaches and were handed weapons upon arrival and enlisted in the Haganah.
In 1948, in Ben Gurion's attempt to capture Jerusalem, which was supposed to be considered as an international city according to the proposal you claim that you have accepted, he called to arms 350,000 armed men and women. These are irregulars under arm, not people who agreed to accept the plan.
Further more, the Haganah and Stern were not small terrorist groups as you claim, they were, the nuke of your Israeli army and produced 3 of your prime ministers and 10s of high ranking israeli officers and politicians.
It was after the 1967 War that the word "Palestinian" began to be used to differentiate the Arab of the Palestinian region from the other Arabs of the region, eg the Egyptians, the Syrians, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_Palestine#Palestinian
Very true!! Like I call a guy from Khalil a Khalili and a guy from Nablus, a Nabilsy and a guy from Gaza a Gazawey!! These are all part of the bigger land which is Palestine!!
Zuhayr Muhsin, the leader of the Syrian-funded as-Sa'iqa Palestinian faction and its representative on the PLO Executive Committee, told a Dutch newspaper in 1977 that "There is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.
Zuhair Muhsin represented a Fascist ideology created by a Christian Syrian and adopted by a party called "The Syrian National Socialist party" such ideology was followed by some people in parts of what they used to call "Greater Syria" (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine) that belives that the people of that region are physically and mentally to all others.
I too consider myself as part of the greater Syrian region though I do not belive in the superiority part.