Myths & Facts
Chapter 3: Partition

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The United Nations unjustly partitioned Palestine.
The partition plan gave the Jews most of the land, including all the fertile areas.
Israel usurped all of Palestine in 1948.
Prior to 1948, the Palestinian Arabs were never offered a state.
The majority of the population in Palestine was Arab; therefore, a unitary Arab state should have been created.
The Arabs were prepared to compromise to avoid bloodshed.
Israel was created to compensate the Jews for the Holocaust.
The creation of Israel was a catastrophe for the Palestinians caused by the Zionists.