A 'war?' against one's own long ago captured and surrounded population of Israeli's former Arab neighbors in British ruled Palestine imprisoned on their own but less than half smaller land. A 'war?' In which there is little or no reporting of militaries clashing with each other, but lots of reporting of tens thousands of dead and maimed women and children, of tens of thousands of their homes destroyed often with family members buried underneath the ruble.
Maybe it's time to go back and recall when, how and why this intractable murderous violence in Palestine began.
In November of 1946, American power over an incipient United Nations of only 56 nations, produced a genocidal stratagem of torching the Holy Land with a phony, never expected nor intended to be implemented resolution for a crazy quilt partition [7] of Palestine meant to immediately provoke a civil war prepared for and expected by the Colonial Powers supported revisionist Zionists leadership and their terrorist groups the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) and Lehi or the Stern Gang - ultimately led by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
(The vote for partition was approved with 25 in favor versus 32 against, abstaining or absent)
If the reader would like to read Albert Einstein's commentary on events in Palestine from 1923 through 1948 please read on.
More than a year before this civil war producing vote, Albert Einstein made headlines in the New York Times, EINSTEIN URGES UNITED NATIONS RUN PALESTINE, February 15, 1946
"A government in Palestine under the UN's direct control and a constitution assuring Jews' and Arab' security against being outvoted by each other would solve the Jewish-Arab difficulties." [8]
During the debate of two UN plans for Palestine, Egyptian delegate Fawzi noted
"an aim to establish military bases for the benefit of Powers that wanted to gain a strong hold in the oil rich Middle East,"
Fawzi had asked for an advisory opinion on the legal issues from the International Court of Justice. His delegation denied that the General Assembly had any power to decree the partition of Palestine, and described the partition plan as "shameless illegality," contrary to the principle of self-determination for the overwhelming majority of the people of Palestine.
If the alternate UN plan for an independent and democratic Palestine had not been suffocated by colonial power politicking, Jews would have had access to the entire Mandate of Palestine. With all the intellectual prowess that immigrating Jews were bringing as engineers, doctors, scientists and workers knowledgeable in advanced technology, and the international financial connections available to their leaders, both sides might have opted to stay mixed, legislating a great degree of regard for cultural, religious distinctions that would see Jews sharing economic social benefits with Arabs in a Israel-Palestine smack in a sea of Arab nations accepting a Jewish lead in the affairs of a prospering single unique mixed Jewish-Arab state. The culturally rich Ladino culture in Muslim ruled Spain comes to mind.
How welcomed by all the concerned world would freedom and justice for Palestinians be!
It is to be expected that Israel will try to continue to deny freedom and independence and justice, even dignity, for Palestinians by continuing to delay acceptance of any kind of two state arrangement. But, a single democratic state might even become to be preferable to Israel's having to remove the Israeli settlers from the West Bank, and having to tolerate a still belligerent Arab population on its border and along its Mediterranean shore. The homeland Jewishness within a wisely negotiated new Israel-Palestine state could continue alongside or interspersed within a Muslim population equally at home in a Middle East of Islamic religion.
In 1927, in "The Jews and Palestine, " in About Zionism, Einstein wrote referring to his experience during his 1923 visit,
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