ABSTRACT
MOSHE MA'OZ: We should all be attuned to the serious juncture of 1947 and United Nations partition resolution 181 which produced different narratives in the two national communities. In Israel, there is almost a consensus, to which I object, that the Palestinians missed an opportunity. Former foreign minister Abba Eban used to say the Palestinians never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity, beginning with 1947. I would rephrase it: Palestinian leaders missed opportunities, but the generalization is extreme.
