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In describing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, media outlets often employ misleading language about the “establishment of Israel in 1948” or its “creation” by the U.N.
These phrases beg the question: was the U S “created” by the Treaty of Paris in 1783? The answer is that our country had already become a reality through the sacrifice of patriots who built it and fought for it. The same is true of Israel. Before the U.N. partition, Jewish pioneers had already established a dynamic, self-sufficient settlement on mostly empty land with some 600,000 residents. The thriving city of Tel Aviv rose on desolate sand dunes. Following official independence, 800,000 Jewish refugees from oppression in Islamic states vastly outnumbered all earlier refugees from the Holocaust.
Israel’s existence was an accomplished fact before it was recognized by the rest of the world
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