IS THE UNITED NATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL? Part 2 of 2 - YJ Draiman

IS THE UNITED NATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL? Part 2 of 2

Those who assert that Israel was created, rather than diminished, by the Palestine Partition Plan knowingly reverse Cause and Effect, as U.N. General Assembly Resolution no. 181 was the result — rather than the determinant — of Great Britain’s decision to quit and abandon its obligation for a sovereign Jewish National Home in Palestine; and to execute the remainder of Mandatory Palestine terms. This is because, in February 1947, Great Britain had already announced its intention to completely withdraw from the western portion of Mandatory Palestine by August 1948. Since this announcement was made some 9 months prior to — and, in fact, served as the direct impetus for — the United Nations’ recommendation and issuance of its Palestine Partition Plan, it is clear that the subsequent British withdrawal from the western portion of Mandatory Palestine in May 1948, and the consequent Arab war of annihilation against the Jewish population centers thereof (in rank violation of the Palestine Partition Plan and international law), and the ensuing emergence of the sovereign State of Israel there from all would have occurred regardless of the existence of the U.N. Palestine Partition Plan.
Conversely, had the Jewish population centers of the western portion of Mandatory Palestine been destroyed by the Arabs, and had Israel thereby lost its War of Independence, then neither United Nations’ resolutions nor supranational remorse would have sufficed to reverse such a catastrophic denouement.
Clearly, there is an enormous difference between endorsement and creation. While the United Nations certainly endorsed the establishment of modernIsrael (at least within the tiny Partition Plan lines), that feckless endorsement (which was so violently rejected by the entire Arab, and larger Muslim, world) had no operative effect on the creation of the Jewish State precisely because it was stillborn.
Nonetheless, that endorsement did bestow upon Israel a unique international legal status, namely, is that of being the only nation in the World whose establishment was officially endorsed by both the League of Nations and the United Nations.
However, delving deeper into the realm of Cause and Effect, it may be cogently argued that the State of Israel presently exists in the biblical Land of Israel as a Jewish nation-state within defensible borders due only to a combination of the belligerence and the impatience of the Arabs. This denouement was portended by the prescient declaration of the biblical Joseph to his brothers: “ ‘Although; you meant [to inflict] Evil upon me, God meant it for Good, in order to accomplish — it is as [clear as] this Day — that a vast people be kept alive.’ ” (Genesis 50:20).
In the absence of this belligerence and impatience, approximately 45% of the citizenry to be encompassed within Israel as defined by the 1947 Partition Plan lines would have been Arab, thereby constituting a demographic time bomb within the renascent Jewish State. In 2015 current affairs, we are witnessing the mushrooming time bomb, ready to explode in the whole of the Middle East.
Now, let us hypothetically assume that neither the Arabs residing within the proposed Jewish State, nor the Arabs residing within the proposed Arab State, nor the Arabs residing within the surrounding Arab states had ever initiated a war of annihilation against the Jewish population centers of the western portion of Mandatory Palestine, but that they had, instead, simply acquiesced to the creation of Israel within the Partition Plan lines recommended by U.N. General Assembly Resolution no. 181.
In these circumstances, a democratic Israel hosting such a substantial law-abiding Arab electorate (which, never having warred against Israel, would have remained in place from the outset) would not have enacted the exclusionist, but morally imperative, Law of Return (which, in implementation of Articles 6 & 7 of the Mandate for Palestine, grants automatic residency and appurtenant citizenship rights to any Jew in the World). For, it is this law, coupled with the voluntary exodus of some 600,000 Arab belligerents during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, which has allowed the Jewish population of Israel to maintain, to the present time, its overwhelming demographic dominance over the extant Arab population thereof (at a historical ratio of 4:1), despite the fact that the Arab birthrate has traditionally been (until recently) substantially higher than the Jewish birthrate.
Also in these circumstances, an Israel which was never invaded by the Arabs of the proposed Arab State and those of the surrounding Arab states would not have fought any War of Independence, and consequently would not have expanded from its 1947 Partition Plan lines to its 1949 armistice demarcation lines — let alone to its present post-1967 liberated defensible borders.
Consequently, it is likely that such a demographically-challenged Israel (i.e., a country hosting a large peaceful Arab population that enjoyed a superior birthrate) would have quietly ceased to exist as a Jewish nation-state several generations ago.
That the belligerent and impatient Arabs are themselves principally responsible for the State of Israel’s present entrenchment in the biblical Land of Israel as a Jewish nation-state within defensible borders is not only ironic but — more importantly — also constitutes a grand historic replay of the circumstances under which the Jewish people’s forebears, under the leadership of Joshua, originally conquered the Land. As is related in the Hebrew Bible: “Joshua waged war with all of these [Canaanite] kings for a long time. There was not a city that made peace with the Children of Israel except for the Hivvite inhabitants of Gibeon; they [the Hebrews] took everything in battle. For it was from HaShem, to harden their [the Canaanite nations’] hearts towards battle against Israel, in order to destroy them [the Canaanite nations] — that they not find favor [with the Hebrews] — so that they would be extirpated [by the Hebrews], as HaShem had commanded Moses.” (Joshua 11:18-20).
In sum, modern Israel may credit its legal creation to the 1920 San Remo Conference which incorporated the 1917 Balfour Declaration as international law and its implementation of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, and its de facto existence to the impatient belligerence of its enemies and the consequent resolve of the Jewish people to survive.

PS. It is interesting to note that the World at large is not questioning the State of Jordan and its territory, which has taken 78% from the international allocation to the Jewish land. The new Arab State of Jordan a State that has never existed in history prior to WWI. But, Israel that has existed on its ancestral land for over 3600 years which included; the land Jordan occupies, the Arabs and the world at large are questioning Israel’s sovereign territory. They do not mention that The Arabs received over 5 million square miles of territory and that the Arabs terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and their children, including the confiscation of all their assets, personal property, homes, businesses and Jewish owned land of about 120,000 sq, km. or 46,332 sq. miles (6 times the size of Israel, valued in the trillions of dollars) and that the majority of the Jewish families expelled from Arab countries were re-settled in Israel’s LIBERATED TERRITORY and currently comprise over half the population in Israel.

YJ Draiman

P.S. The UN can pass non-binding resolutions, but it can neither change history nor alter reality.

Jewish presence and land ownership goes back to the time of Abraham who dug wells in the territory later called the Land of Israel (The City of Be’er Sheva in the Negev is named after one of Abraham’s wells. Abraham took his people and helped save the captured people in Shalem which is Jerusalem). Jewish sovereignty STARTED about 1250 B.C.E. in Jordan with defeat of Amorites under Moses' lead! The tribe of Reuven, Gad and half of Menasheh were the FIRST to have designated land! Only later, when Moses passed away did Joshua lead the rest of the Israelites into Canaan and conquered the area.
What we today call Jordan was ours, as a people, BEFORE what we today call Israel!
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Even in the 2nd commonwealth The Jewish sovereign kingdom under the Hasmonaems included all the inhabitable area of today's "Jordan".
I beg to defer with those who claim that the east bank of the Jordan River which is now called Jordan was not Jewish land. Jordan is "Palestine" as much as Israel can be claimed to be; and because the British Mandate and the British Army were in control of Palestine as trustee for the Jewish people to help the reconstituted The Jewish National Home and bring about Jewish control and sovereignty over Palestine aka The Land of Israel; but the British violated their duty and obligation and assigned over three quarters of Jewish allocated historical land to the new Arab State of Trans-Jordan. Moreover, the Jewish people in 1922 Palestine did not have their army to defend and protect them from international complicity in the theft of Jewish historical territory.
As for options, though none are necessarily easy, 50 yrs later, the "outcome thesis" of preserving the "status quo" has been miserably shortsighted.
1) The world unjustified pressure for Israel to be 8-15 miles wide and accept the 1948 armistice line as a permanent border is increasing.
2) We all know what happens when Arabs "Palestinians" have Israel leave. Gaza. It becomes an Arab terrorist State that fires thousands of rockets at Israel’s civilian population centers.
Jordan IS Palestine. It is over 77% of the Palestine Mandate, which was allocated to the Jewish people after WWI, its population is 80% Arab-Palestinians, and its numerically insignificant royal family are British imports from another area entirely (modern day Saudi Arabia), circa 1920.
Israel can not be 8 miles wide. If Palestine/Jordan wants to be antagonistic they will reap what they sow. Moreover, it is about time for the weakness of 20 centuries of ghetto living, to come out of the Jew Daniel. When this is done we will be alright, b'ezrat Hashem (with the Almighty’s help).

YJ Draiman