Steven Bonnell (Destiny)
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It was correctly brought up that I believe that Ben-Gurion had, I think Shlomo Ben-Ami describes it as an obsession with getting validation or support from Western states, Great Britain, and then a couple of decades later it becomes- That explains the Suez War, the Suez Crisis. Exactly, correct.
That was one of the major motivators, the idea to work with Britain and France on a military operation against Arabs. But then the question, again, I go back to, if that is true, if Ben-Gurion, if the early Israel saw themselves as a Western fashion nation, How could we possibly imagine that they would have engaged in the transfer of some 400,000 Arabs after accepting the partition plan?
Would that not have completely and totally destroyed their legitimacy in the eyes of the entire Western world? Would that not have been? How not?
They accepted the UN partition resolution, borders and all. That's how they accepted it. You can say that some of the Zionists deep in their hearts had the idea that maybe at some point they would be able to get more.
But they grudgingly accepted what the United Nations, the world community, had said this is what you're going to get.
It's intrinsic to Western history.
The unsufferance I don't agree with. I think that's wrong. The Jewish state came into being in 1948. It had a population which was 20% Arab when it came into being after Arab refugees. Many of them had become refugees, but 20% remained in the country. 20% of Israel's population at inception in 1949, was Arab.
No, no, no. I was talking about what remained in Palestine, Israel, after it was created. The 20% who lived in Israel received citizenship and all the rights of Israelis, except, of course, the right to serve in the army, which they didn't want to. And they have Supreme Court justices. They have Knesset members. You They lived under emergency laws until 1966.
For a period, sure, they lived under emergency laws. So they didn't immediately have citizenship. No, no, no, wait a second. At the beginning, it's not fantasy. At the beginning, they received citizenship, could vote in elections for their own people, and they were put into parliament.
But in the first years, the Jewish majority suspected that maybe the Arabs would be disloyal because they had just tried to destroy the Jewish state. Then they dropped the military government and they became fully equal citizens. So if the whole idea was they must have a state without Arabs, this didn't happen in 49. And it didn't happen in the subsequent decades.
Because you're missing the first section of that paragraph, which was they were being assaulted by the Arabs. And as a result, a Jewish state could not have come into being unless there had also been an expulsion of the population which was trying to kill them.
Can I actually respond to that? Because this is actually, I think this is emblematic of the entire conversation. I watched a lot of Norm's interviews and conversations in preparation for this. And I hear Norm will say this all over and over and over again. I only deal in facts. I don't deal in hypotheticals. I only deal in facts. I only deal in facts.
And that seems to be the case, except for when the facts are completely and totally contrary to the particular point you're trying to push. The idea that Jews would have out of hand rejected any state that had Arabs on it or always had a plan of expulsion is just betrayed by the acceptance of the 47 partition plan.
The Zionists wanted a Jewish state, correct? That didn't mean expulsion of the Arabs. It's not the same thing. They wanted a Jewish state with a Jewish majority, but they were willing, as it turned out, both in 37 and in 47, and subsequently, to have an Arab minority, a large Arab minority.
They were willing to have a large Arab minority in the country, and they ended up with a large Arab minority in the country.
What happened in between the rejection of the partition plan and the expulsion of the Arabs?
Well, yeah. Well, I mean, like it's not it wasn't random.
You can say that. You can say that. But in this case, the facts betray you. There was no Arab acceptance of anything that would have allowed for a Jewish state to exist. Of course not. Number one.
And number two, I think that it's entirely possible, given how things happen after war, that this exact same conflict could have played out and an expulsion would have happened without any ideology at play. That there was a people that disagreed on who had territorial rights to a land. There was a massive war afterwards.
And then a bunch of their friends invaded after to reinforce the idea that the Jewish people in this case couldn't have a state. There could have been a transfer regardless.
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