October 1, 2024
The Leftist History Behind The Creation of Arab ‘Palestinians’
By
Sha'i ben-Tekoa
The United Nations Organization opened its doors in 1945, and by 1989, the Security Council and General Assembly together voted on 870 resolutions dealing with the “Arab-Israeli” conflict—as it was commonly known in those decades. When I worked on a research project commissioned by the Office of the late Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir, I read and tabulated every one of them.
In this period, the Security Council “condemned” Israel,” its highest rebuke, 49 times. Sometimes Israel was “vigorously condemned,” “deplored,” or “strongly deplored.” No Arab state was ever so chastised.
In the same period, the General Assembly “condemned,” “deplored,” or otherwise castigated Israel 321 times. Again, no Arab state was ever so judged. The aggregate number of individual state votes against Israel in the UN’s first 44 years came to 55,642 votes.
For the UN’s first quarter-century, it did not issue a single resolution referencing “Palestinians.” In those UN decades, there were no “Palestinian” on anyone’s lips.