Krauthammer on Israel's 60th

Great history lesson but he missed one major point

Krauthammer writes:

Six months before Israel's birth, the United Nations had decided by a two-thirds majority that the only just solution to the British departure from Palestine would be the establishment of a Jewish state and an Arab state side by side. The undeniable fact remains: The Jews accepted that compromise; the Arabs rejected it.

With a vengeance. On the day the British pulled down their flag, Israel was invaded by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan and Iraq -- 650,000 Jews against 40 million Arabs.

He did not mention the Jews forced out of Arab countries when Israel was born:

About 850,000 Jews fled Arab countries after Israel's founding in 1948, leaving behind assets valued today at more than $300 billion, said Heskel M. Haddad.

Those Jews were refugees but were soon absorbed into the Israeli population. The Palestinian refugees, who left voluntarily, in the expectation that the massed Arab armies would crush Israel, have stayed refugees as a matter of Arab foreign policy.

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