Why the Arabs Said NO to an Arab State in Palestine. Twice!

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In 1937, the British Peel Commission proposed splitting Mandatory Palestine: one Jewish state, one Arab state. The Jewish leadership said “yes, let’s negotiate.” The Arab Higher Committee, led by Haj Amin al-Husseini, said “no.” Why? They rejected the idea of partition, feared losing land to Jews, and didn’t trust immigration would stop. Fast forward to 1947. The United Nations offered another partition: two states, with Jerusalem internationalized. Jews accepted, even though the borders were messy. Arabs again said “no.” This time, both the Palestinian Arab leadership and the Arab League rejected the plan. Their argument? Most of the population was Arab, Jews owned less than 10% of the land, yet were offered over half the territory. They saw it as unfair and refused to recognize any Jewish state at all. From 1937 to 1947, the pattern was the same: Jews said yes to compromise, Arabs said no to partition. And that “no” set the stage for the 1948 war. SUPPORT ME ON PATREON ► https://www.patreon.com/historyhustler SUPPORT ME ON PAYPAL ► https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/HistoryHustle BUY ME A COFFEE ► https://buymeacoffee.com/historyhustle SUBSCRIBE ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYLJ8hULBTjTTmJZGL-dq-A?sub_confirmation=1 SOURCES - A Line In The Sand, The Anglo-French Struggle For The Middle East 1914-1948 (James Barr). - Britain’s Moment in Palestine. Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917–1948 (Michael J Cohen). - One Palestine, Complete. Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate (Tom Segev). IMAGES Images from commons.wikimedia.org. VIDEO Video material from: https://archive.org/details/PORTRAITOFPALESTINE PORTRAIT OF PALESTINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2XtIPf133o Jerusalem 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." MUSIC "Constancy Part One" "Lost Frontier" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ SOUNDS Freesound.org. E-MAIL historyhustle[at]gmail.com