Last night Butler Lawn, Columbia University: "We have Zionists who have entered the camp"

[The Revolution]

114. You keep bringing up this 1948 partition

By which I assume you mean the partition plan adopted by the UN in 1947?

The Israelis mostly accepted the plan, while the Palestinians (and Arab states as a whole) basically rejected it outright.

Since they never agreed to the borders in the partition plan in the first place, they can't now suddenly hold them to be sacrosanct.

Immediately after the resolution was adopted, there was a civil war in Mandatory Palestine, immediately followed by the Arab-Israeli war once the Mandate ceased to exist.

In these wars, both sides were trying to grab more land than the partition plan had laid out. In the end, the Israelis had control of large chunks of what would have been the Arab state under the partition plan. Egypt and Jordan also annexed much of this land.

So the 1947 UN partition plan was never really in effect. The war changed the situation, and Israel came out ahead. Again, I don't see how the side that rejected the original plan can now go back and demand its enforcement just because they tried (and failed) to conquor additional land for themselves.