The UN's fabricated Arab narrative has convinced academia

Editor's note: The UN publication referred to was published in June of 1990. It remains here on the UN's "Information System on the Question of Palestine" website.

"The United Nations publication 'The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem 1917-1988' ('Study') has deliberately misrepresented the actual wording of General Assembly Resolution 181 passed on 29 November 1947 - deceiving many academics who have disseminated the Study's false message.

The Study has been published by the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat for, and under the guidance of, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.

The offending statement in the Study misleadingly declares:

'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...

Words are power. That the Study deliberately changed the actual wording of Resolution 181 to advance these fictitious PLO claims – or perhaps others unknown - for spurious reasons - is scandalous.

This false rendition of Resolution 181 has been repeated verbatim in many books...

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."