By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--May 3, 2017
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"After investigating various alternatives the United Nations proposed the partitioning of Palestine into two independent States, one Palestinian Arab and the other Jewish, with Jerusalem internationalized."The actual wording of Resolution 181 stated:
"Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in Part III of this Plan, shall come into existence in Palestine....The Study omits to mention that 78% of Palestine had already become an independent Arab State in 1946 and been renamed the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan The Study's claim that Resolution 181 called for an " independent Palestinian Arab State" was not accidental but deliberately done to deceive and mislead.
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Richard Cummings PhD propagated this false statement during a lecture to the Arab Society of Princeton University on 21 February 2002. This falsehood again appears in "Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser" written by Michael Scharf and Paul Williams. Their book grew out of a series of meetings with all ten of the living former U.S. State Department legal advisers from the Carter administration to that of George W. Bush. Both authors are law professors and formerly served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the US Department of State. That two such eminent lawyers apparently accepted this official United Nations document as being unerringly accurate speaks volumes for those who have been similarly deceived because they didn't take the time to verify what they were disseminating. Many other academics have swallowed this duplicitous Study hook line and sinker to form hostile anti-Israel views - especially regarding Israel's claims in Judea and Samaria - geographical place names actually used in Resolution 181 and for 3000 years continuously until the Arabs renamed those areas the "West Bank" in 1950. The Roman Empire used the same ploy in 135 AD-- changing the name of its conquered province from "Syria Judaea" to "Syria Palestina". Change the name - change the game Correcting this fabricated United Nations Arab narrative is urgently required.
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com