ABSTRACT
Palestine Betrayed is primarily a history of the five and a half month period between the passing of the United Nation (UN) resolution to partition Palestine into two independent states: one Arab, one Jewish, with Jerusalem under an international regime and the end of the British Mandate. During that time the Palestinian forces of Husseini, assisted by a large pan-Arab irregular army, launched thousands of attacks on their Jewish neighbors to prevent the establishment of Israel. In May of 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, the supposedly moderate head of the Palestinian Authority, took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to make the case for return of the Arab refugees of 1948 to Israel by recounting his own tale of expulsion by the Zionists. In an Arab-language interview a few years earlier, he had revealed that they had not been expelled by Jewish forces; neither had they lived in a tent of any kind.
