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Show 1© up an exclusion! ®t Jewish society in a preponderantly Arab land, the Palestinian people was a marked people! i t was foredoomed to dispossession, if Henis® was to triumph* And the Palestinians fenew i t . They fatew, as one of t h e i r foremost spo&esmen wrote in 1038, that "the logic of facts i s inexorable* It .shows t h a t no room can be a»de in Palestine for a second nation except by die** lodging or exterminating the nation in possession*" Confronted by the choice between submission and IWHMSjwrtlSK r e s i s t a n c e , they chose a s s e r t i o ns %m r e s i s t * Later Israeli/alamos that Palestinians beoaine refugees only because they r e s i s t e d fioniso are belied by the doctrinal and the pregraaimatie factors which, fros the very beginning, made the disledgment of Palestinians a Zionist imperative, The only choice t h a t Honiara offered the/pale s t i n t an s was the choice between becoming refugee® by consent and becoming refugees by force, ate hnfimnn hi""i'Tir rrfna-r-i assbsfsssss^sjabsj '•'• tT [f- i sec. (2) International Guarantees Betrayed1 iiilii>Jiiiifi»ii.iii uiii 11 1. -in iiiiir 1n1n1111n.11n.il i.'iBiini. 111 Li.-ii-iiriunii-rii.itw r.-i.ru. .miii 11 mi-in. .i.m.immi.i.1 .111.1 M i i U m u r , Just a® it was/premeditated, and indeed a fulfillment of original aiw® inseparable from the total purpose® of ficnlsfs, the dispersion of the bulk of t?e Palestinian Arab® was also a transgression against safeguard® and guarantees which the international eotseaniity wrote into every international instrument in which it endorsed portions of the Zionist political program. For, although it encroached upon the inalienable rights of the Palestinian Arabs whenever it endorsed seme part® of the S ion 1st program, the international community nevertheless always attempted to atg aitigate that encroachment by trying to contain the dangers to Arab rights implicit in Zionism, |
