Sixty years ago the U.N. General Assembly ratified a plan to partition what was left of Palestine and establish a Palestinian Jewish state and another Palestinian Arab state. (In 1922, the British had already given to Arabs 80% of the region of Palestine, the land mandated for a Jewish Homeland by the League of Nations after WW I. This is now the state of Jordan.) The Jews accepted the 1947 U.N. decision. The Arabs overwhelmingly rejected it. The Jews of Palestine have been battling for their existence ever since. (They had already been battling for some time.)
In honor of Jewish survival, here is Jordan Chaviv's song, "We Will Survive."
3 Dec 2007 @ 05:39, by Bruce Kodish