Friday, December 12, 2008

PA Minister Rewrites History on PA TV

Mona Charen quotes from Palestinian Media Watch:
The latest example of historical revisionism is the rewriting of the UN Partition Plan of 1947, which recommended the division of the Land of Israel/Palestine into two states: one Jewish and one Arab.

The false Palestinian version of the Partition Plan was expressed on PA TV by Dr. Ahmad Subh, Deputy Minister in the PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who accused the UN of permitting in 1947 the establishment of only one state, Israel, and not of an Arab state.

The following are the words of Dr. Subh:
"The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Nov. 29 was not picked coincidentally, that's the anniversary of the [1947 UN] Partition Plan...
In 1977, the UN General Assembly decided to restore the Palestinian people's esteem, following the historic injustice which happened in 1947, when 'a birth certificate' was offered to one state instead of to two states.

One state [Israel] was permitted to be established, while the Palestinian state was not permitted to be established."


Fortunately, Dr. Subh's feigned ignorance is not universal. The Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) has a map that clearly shows the boundaries of the 2 states proposed by the UN Partition Plan of 1947 (UN Resolution 181).

You can also read the text of the resolution on the UN website, which contains a link to a copy of the map with the proposed borders:


Charen concludes:

It's so important to continue to answer these lies because every radical agitator, every suicide bomber, and many ordinary Arabs continue to believe them. They are fed a non-stop diet of highly inflammatory lies and calumnies. And this is from the "moderate" Palestinian Authority. Hamas is much worse.

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