Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 2, 2012 23:34:32 GMT
BBC Mid-East correspondent Kevin Connolly writes an 'analysis' in this article to explain how Israel's boundaries came about, and why in his view - or at least the view he wants to be conveyed, Arabs have a problem with it.
It begins:
The more major omissions in this encapsulation is that the Arabs never accepted the UN resolution, and tried in the successive times to push the Jews into the sea. So each war was a defensive one fought by Israel, in which it captured further territory.
It also conveniently neglects to mention that the whole of Sinai was captured too by Israel in 1967, though he does write 'among other territories' to cover his arse.
But then he’d have to include why it was later returned, and is now generating a huge tourist income for the Egyptians, after Israel first developed it.
But if he included that it would highlight the fact that for the others to get land back, they would have to sign a peace treaty.
Not the truth the BBC want to foster.
(hat tip -Restoring Britain)
It begins:
Israel's original boundaries were established after it fought a war of independence with its Arab neighbours in 1948-9. Israel ended the war with much more territory than the UN resolution of 1947, which endorsed the creation of a Jewish state, originally intended. The amount of land under Israeli control increased again after further fighting in 1967 in which Israel occupied - among other territories - the eastern part of the city of Jerusalem, the West Bank of the River Jordan, and the Gaza Strip. For many Palestinians the right to return to lost lands is a deeply cherished dream - many have been living in refugee camps in neighbouring Arab states since the 1940s.
The more major omissions in this encapsulation is that the Arabs never accepted the UN resolution, and tried in the successive times to push the Jews into the sea. So each war was a defensive one fought by Israel, in which it captured further territory.
It also conveniently neglects to mention that the whole of Sinai was captured too by Israel in 1967, though he does write 'among other territories' to cover his arse.
But then he’d have to include why it was later returned, and is now generating a huge tourist income for the Egyptians, after Israel first developed it.
But if he included that it would highlight the fact that for the others to get land back, they would have to sign a peace treaty.
Not the truth the BBC want to foster.
(hat tip -Restoring Britain)
