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Flapan-it is a myth

The issue was already discussed here.

- the article:"Several scholars endorse Simha Flapan's view that it is a myth that Zionists accepted the partition as a compromise by which the Jewish community abandoned ambitions for the whole of Palestine and recognized the rights of the Palestinians to their own state. Rather, Flapan argued, acceptance was only a tactical move that aimed to thwart the creation of a Palestinian state and, concomitantly, expand the territory that had been assigned by the UN to the Jewish state.".

The second sentence is very well supported, but where are the supports for the 1st sentence? The Yishuv happily accepted the the partition resolution. period. The Zionist leaders have not approved or denied their possible expansionist intentions. Hence, where is the "Myth"? A possible scenario for a "Myth" could have been if the leaders would have promised to end any expansionist plans, but eventually conquer more territory, but that did not happened.

- Ben Gurion was both expansionist and pragmatist. His views were constantly updated in accordance with the situations and with his accumulated experience. On 1934 he told Musa Alami "Ben-Gurion suggested that the Zionists could provide significant help developing the region, Alami replied that he would prefer waiting one hundred years and leaving the land backward, as long as the Palestinians did the job themselves". On 1947-48, he realized that the Arabs would have never accept a Jewish state in Palestine, independently of its size. During the 2nd half of 1948, the Israeli army was stronger then the Arab state armies, and Ben Gurion considered conquering parts of the west bank. He raised the proposal for a formal approval, but lost. Thereafter he used to blame the other ministers for their negative vote. However, he was a shrewd politician and could have assure the right vote by preparing and pressing those ministers in advance. Why he have not prepared it? Some Historians claim that he was afraid of annexing so many Arab citizens to Israel, but preferred to blame others for the "failure".

-In my opinion, if hypothetically the Arabs would have accepted the partition, the both states, the Arab and the Jewish, would have co exist within the planned boundaries. If Israel would have tried to conquer parts of the Arab state, the U.S. would not have allow her, similarly to pressure that Truman applied and forced Israel to withdraw from Sinai in early 1949. Ykantor (talk) 19:34, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

The Sinai is easy for Israel to give up, it's a barren desert, the place God trapped them in for 40 years as punishment. Possessing it all was mostly about protecting British interests in the Suez and establishing a buffer against Egypt. But it's not critical. In contrast, the West Bank was the historical location of all the Kingdom of Judea and half the Kingdom of Israel. It is, if anything, more the historical home of the Jews than the land they currently inhabit. Outside of Galilee and the strip connected to Jerusalem, this was mostly the land on the coast, not so good for traditional forms of agriculture, which was consequently the most sparsely populated, easiest to convince someone to sell, and, being near to the sea, easiest to arrive at from a foreign land. The Ancient Jews did not live there for the same reason the indigenous Palestinians did not, for the same reason that the Zionists found it easiest to gain foothold. The Hebrew name for the place, "Judea and Samaria", reflects this historical memory. Pressure from the United States over it cannot be expected to have had as much effect as pressure from the United States over the Sinai. As well, Egypt is a powerful country and regional power and was a critical chess piece in the cold war. The Arab state, in contrast, would've been a geopolitical non-entity. The United States would not have been so eager to pressure Israel in the first place there as it was over the Sinai, there would be less for it to gain.

Also, I doubt an Arab state was ever realistic in the first place. You speak of "the Arabs" as a unified entity. But there were differing objectives among all the members of the Arab alliance, and the Palestinians themselves had no voice in the matter. The objectives of Transjordan, for instance, were clearly to seize control of the West Bank for itself. This was part of King Abdullah I's grand vision, inherited from his father, of forming "Greater Syria". He wouldn't have accepted ceding his gains to an Arab state, and an Arab state without the West Bank, just Galilee and Gaza, would've had no leg to stand on. But he did, in fact, support partition, his goals mainly consisted of stepping in to secure the territory from the 1947 declaration. He only actually fought Israel in the projection they made into that territory to gain control of Jerusalem.108.131.85.137 (talk) 09:08, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

If the 2nd part of the sentence is well supported I don't see how the 2nd part would not be either. What's the difference ? Pluto2012 (talk) 05:32, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

At https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Search&search=Saul+S.+Friedman&go=Go appears: United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine U.S. endorsed the Commission findings concerning Jewish immigration ... 20nations%20soviet%20bloc&f false History of the Middle East by Saul S Friedman . ... 87 KB (12,764 words) - 18:57, 9 August 2014 I'm unable to correct; that is, to change "20nations%20soviet%20bloc&f" to the intended text Stuart Filler (talk) 10:25, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Source: Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948

Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948, Michael J. Cohen, Princeton University Press, 14 Jul 2014:

• pp294: the UN Partition Resolution vote.
• p313: the delay imposed on the arrival of the UN 5-man commission.
• pp333: meetings between Golda Meir and Abdullah.

    ←   ZScarpia   20:14, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

For my previous semi-attempt to use that book as a source (partially derailed by talknic and partly by the fact that I'm not too good at details of sourcing and don't particularly enjoy it), see Talk:United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine/Archive 3#British handover.2C 1948... -- AnonMoos (talk) 07:41, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

A vital information for this article is missing. Help to find the answer.

I know this isn't a forum but this information is rather important and it isn't discussed in this article as far as I am concerned. It should state which state would be contiguous and which state wouldn't since this is important in my opinion. There are two points in which the Arab state seem to divide the Jewish state into a total of three parts. One seems to have a railroad passing through it while the other doesn't even have a direct passage. Can someone explain so I can add some information on this or explain the questions I've mentioned above. Sorry if these are already explained but I couldn't find them.

Thanks anyways. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jewnited (talk • contribs) 21:51, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

recent reverts

Does anyone have access to the source used for "Zionists attributed Palestinian rejection of the plan to a mere intransigence. However, Palestinians and Arabs as a rule always reiterated that a partition was unfair..."? Religion in History: Conflict, Conversion and Coexistence page 265? Is there a question that the Arabs rejected any partition of any kind, and getting a bigger or smaller chunk wasn't really the issue? This is mentioned and sourced in the lead. So at minimum the above statement should be attributed (if not removed for fringiness), but I have no idea who wrote the essay or what exactly it says. Also "There were also disproportionate allocations under the plan and the area under Jewish control contained 45% of the Palestinian population..." (same source) does not seem to be very clear or very neutral. What is disproportionate here? Proportionate to what?

Also, is procon.org a reliable source? What exactly is it supporting in the text that was removed and restored? No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 04:17, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Disproportionate refers to 33-35% of the population, owning 6% of the land in Mandate Palestine being given sovereignty over 56% of the land, hence the right to redefine all the land laws against the will of the land-holding Palestinians who would have ended up within Israel.Nishidani (talk) 13:35, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Is that from the cited source? Can you post the relevant quote from the book? No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 18:03, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Procon.org is a reasonable web site but I don't think it is wiki-citable and it should be replaced. Regarding the book, I can't see p265. However your "Is there a question" question is off-target. There is no contradiction between believing that Palestine belonged to the Arabs and believing that the partition plan was unfair, just as there is no contradiction between Zionist acceptance of the plan and their belief that the whole of Palestine belonged to the Jews. The usual description adopts a false symmetry. For the Arabs the plan moved away from what they believed was just, while for the Jews the plan moved towards it; that's not symmetrical. Zero 10:15, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

They thought any partition would be unjust, not just this particular partition. The text implies that they thought 56/44 specifically was unfair. And the ref that was added does not support the text as it currently stands in the article. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 18:03, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I previously posted this on Zero0000's talk page, but posting it here per his suggestion for discussion. I removed the claim that "Zionists attributed Palestinian rejection of the plan to a mere intransigence. However, Palestinians and Arabs as a rule always reiterated that a partition was unfair" as the attitudes of the "Zionists" are not sourced, neither are those of the "Palestinians and Arabs", which are presented as having a uniform opinion and rejecting partition because it was "unfair".

These are claims that need to be sourced. This is a section dedicated to Arab reactions, and yet not a single citation in that paragraph leads me to any Arab from 1947 making any of the stated arguments. I don't see how we can claim Arabs thought something "as a rule" and then not quote a single one making any of the arguments presented (i.e. disproportionate land allocations, areas under Jewish control containing 45% of the Palestinian population, etc.) in 1947. Moreover, there is evidence that directly contradicts these arguments (such as Arab leadership rejecting Peel in 1937, despite it giving them 80% of the land, eroding the argument about rejection stemming from unfair land allocation, as this paragraph claims, and indicating a complete rejection of any partition plan, a position which is supported by actual statements from Arab leaders at the time). Until these claims are sourced, they should not be made.

Sammy1857 (talk) 17:33, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree. The refs currently do not support the text. Moreover, they contradict other sourced text in the article. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 18:03, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

The mistake being made by both of you is puerile. You are either removing or adding verification tags to a passage, not because the information in it cannot be sourced (it is) but because you disagree with the language of the paraphrase. 'as a rule always' is a stupid phrase and unnecessary, and an experienced editor would simply have elided this. If there is some datum in the section not covered by the sources given, specify it, and the passage will be fixed with further sources. The basic data are well known to all students of the period.Nishidani (talk) 18:41, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Let me try again, although I really don't understand how someone could fail to comprehend the point here - the sources do not support the text in the article which states the Arabs rejected the partition plan because they found the idea of Jews getting a bigger share of the land unfair. None of your sources support this claim because it's simply untrue. They rejected the plan because they rejected partition on general.

Speaking of puerile, do you think adding more and more sources that do not support the text is beneficial to the article? If you continue doing that I will have no choice but to add a failed verification tag after every single one. That won't look good.

By the way, it's a good editing habit to check the article after you make an edit. You failed to properly close the ref you added and now there's large red text pointing that out. You might want to consider scrolling down and having a look after you press save. It only takes a second. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 23:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

NMMNG is correct in saying that the Palestinians would have rejected any partition plan, so the wording should not imply that they rejected it only because of the unfairness of the division. To that extent, I agree with NMMNG. However, the unfairness in Palestinian eyes is not irrelevant, since it was a key feature of the Arab case. As I said before, there is no contradiction here. A statement like "Palestine by right belongs to us but your so-called partition plan gives even more to the Zionists than their numbers suggest." is logically well structured. One needs to report both aspects in order to describe the situation correctly. Incidentally, to Sammy1857: the Zionists also rejected the 1937 plan so that argument doesn't work. What actually happened, see here, was that the Zionist Congress reaffirmed its belief that the Jewish people had a right to everything, including Transjordan, and rejected the plan. Zero 04:04, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

I didn't say it was illogical, I said it was unsourced. Which it still is, despite the growing number of refs at the end of the sentence, none of which support it. If you want to say giving the Jews a larger part or one that included a lot of Arabs or whatever was unfair, I suspect you're going to have to find an observer who said it rather than the Arab leadership. IIRC they put the emphasis on rejecting any kind of partition.

Anyway, since we agree the wording is incorrect do you want to remove the sentence, change it, or what? No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 04:25, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

A piece of advice about editing wiki. When you have a multiply-sourced sentence or two, and think the sources do not support the statements, you can mechanically tag it, or, alternatively, review the texts and suggest a formulation that reflects the content of the sources. Adopting this latter course means work of course, but it is the constructive way to fix things. I think therefore that the appropriate thing here is for you to propose a rewrite of the text according to what the given sources say.Nishidani (talk) 07:20, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

That's good (albeit somewhat obvious) advice. Unfortunately, it can't be applied in every case. For example here, I am at a complete loss as to what you were trying to say with all those refs you added. Wanna clue me in? No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 08:08, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Why can't it be applied here? Let me help. Cite the exact words you find unsupported, bolding them, and I'll provide you with a solution.Nishidani (talk) 08:28, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Please re-read this discussion. I explained what the problem is several times. Since Zero has understood and agreed there's a problem, I am confident you too will be able to figure it out. Barring a solution soon, and considering I am unable to apply your sage advice to this situation, I will be removing the unsourced text per WP:V. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 20:06, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

My question was rhetorical, since I didn't expect removalists do ever do anything constructive. I'll leave Zero to express his own views, which, however, I venture to think you miscaracturize (sic) as a warrant for removing a passage as unsourced which is however easily modulated with preexisting sources with a few tweaks. Excision is not what he appears to me to be endorsing, though, as you suggest, I may be misreading. Recapitulating, let me simplify the obvious.

You want sourcing for this:

(a)Zionists attributed Palestinian rejection of the plan to a mere intransigence. However, (b)Palestinians and Arabs as a rule always reiterated that a partition was unfair..."

(a) is sourced to Simha Flapan's thesis as outlined in Sean F. McMahon's book and in Youssef M. Choueiri's book.

(b) reflects what J. Bowyer Bell is quoted as saying in William B. Quandt, Paul Jabber and Ann Mosely Lesch's book: 'In retrospect it is all too easy to point out the Arab blunders, their missed opportunities, their intransigence. It is only just, however, to note that it is easy to urge compromise of another’s principle, to urge someone else to give up half a loaf of his own bread. Surely the Arab argument had much justice. Shorn of biblical quotations, emotional references to the “final solution” and loaded statistics, the Zionist case looked no stronger, and probably somewhat weaker, than the Arab case to disinterested observers. To the Arabs the demand for an Arab Palestine seemed neither novel nor extreme; it seemed just and in accordance with international practice.' ('just' here, unless you don't note it, is an English synonym for 'fair'.

Of course one must satify the consumer. If this is not enough, I'll provide two more of a dozen citations which bear on that formulation which troubles you, found in a few minutes googling (what I expect serious wikipedians to do before posting tags on a page, a practice which means:'I'm unhappy with what's been done here, so please do more work to make me feel comfortable') Here's two more sources to help you modulate the sentence you are uneasy with.

‘This proposed partition was seen as unfair by the Palestine Arabs, both because they sought a government for the entirety of Palestine and because they found the particular territorial division unfair for allocating the bulk of the territory to the projected Jewish state, even though Jews were less numerous than Arabs.’(John Quigley, The Six Day War and Israeli Self-Defense: Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War, Cambridge University Press, 2012 p.7)

'The Arabs attacked the partition resolution as being unfair and contrary to the UN Charter. They contended that the UN had disregarded the rights of the Arab majority in Palestine by giving the Palestine Jews, then representing one-third of the total population, more territory and resources than those allotted to the Arab state and by relegating well over 400,000 Arabs to minority status in the Jewish State.' Fred J. Khoury, ‘United States Peace Efforts’, in Malcolm H. Kerr (ed.) Elusive Peace in the Middle East, SUNY Press 1975 pp.21-22

If anything, what was unsatisfactory in the formulation, apart from the dumb English of 'as a rule always reiterated' which triplicates the same concept bby plkethoric synonyms, was the neglect to mention that one of the primary Arab/Palestinian complaints was that the Partition Plan violated the fundamental principles of the UN Charter. Otherwise, even the phrasing I object to, 'as a rule always reiterated' can find textual support.

'The Arab delegates to the General Assembly, while opposing the very principle of partition, repeatedly maintained that the terms of the partition proposed by UNSCOP were manifestly unfair to the Arab side, because the Jews, who represented only one-third of the country’s population, would receive a disproportionate part of its territory, more than 50 per cent,’ Alexander Yakobson, ‎Amnon Rubinstein, Israel and the Family of Nations: The Jewish Nation-state and Human Rights, Taylor & Francis, 2009 p.19.

That's the gist that several minutes of googling trawled this morning, after I asked you to actually look at some books to find a creative solution to the quibble, rather than express disgruntlement. Now that I've done your homework, perhaps you could review the sources already in the text, take on board those now added here, and suggest a remodulation of the sentence. It's not hard. Zero no doubt will have his own suggestions, and I'd happily defer to any solution of the kind suggested here, or, more probably, one of his own. Nishidani (talk) 21:42, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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