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  • Posted By: wooliebear @ 04/20/2009 9:31:36 PM

    You used to be a fairly trustworthy magazine. Now after many comments to the error on slide 4, saying Jews did not accept the proposal along with the arabs, is an outright lie and you refuse to edit the story. You are now making news, tho flawed, and therefore no longer can be trusted to report a fair and balanced story. It is sure getting hard to find an honest newstory anymore. Another one bites the dust. Turn around, your bias is showing...

  • Posted By: Adam Holland @ 04/18/2009 10:13:21 AM

    The source you cite as the basis for your claim that both Israel and the Arab states rejected partition in fact contradicts this. For example, on page 124 of James L. Gelvin's Israel-Palestinian Conflict, your purported source, the author says that the Zionist movement not only supported complying with the partition, they lobbied for it in the United Nations. When Israel declared independence, it did so according to partition borders. This was met the next day by an Arab invasion.

    Considering that your source contradicts your claim, can you cite a single source to back up your distorted history? If not, please correct the record.

  • Posted By: carpediem007 @ 04/07/2009 2:14:30 AM

    Dear Sir, Madam
    In slide 4 you write that both Israel and the Arabs rejected the partition plan. Fact is, the Jews living in the post British Mandate area were not happy with the partition plan but nevertheless, they did accept it!
    Please correct this erroneous information.
    Thank you...
    Michael F, Cologne, Germany

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