ABSTRACT
On November 29, 1947 the General Assembly of the United Nations decided to partition Palestine into two sovereign states, Jewish and Arab. The Arabs rejected the proposal and responded by making war on the Jewish community. While the British Mandate was in force, the Arab countries had forbidden Jewish emigration to Palestine, in order to prevent the growth of the Jewish community. The Jews for the part prepared to comply with the decision of the United Nations. In the war the State of Israel lost the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, the potash plant at the northern end of the Dead Sea, and the electrical installations at Naharayim. The surviving Jewish combatants in the Old City and the Etzion Region were taken into captivity. The history of the Jewish communities in Arab countries reveals a reality that is quite the opposite. Arab apologists attempt to disguise overt acts of anti-Semitism merely as expressions of opposition to Zionism.
