History Upside Down Quotes

“His [Lord Peel’s] suggestion was a partition of Palestine: about 15 percent to the Jews and 85 percent to the Arabs. Jewish leadership gladly accepted Lord Peel's partition plan. Arab leadership was infuriated by the suggestion that any of Palestine be given over to Jewish sovereignty…Had Arab leadership accepted the Peel Commission compromise, the Palestinian people would have had their own state in 19 3 7 on about 85 percent of what is today Israel.”
― David Meir-Levi, History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression

“Seventy-four percent of the [Palestinian] Mandate had already been allocated to Jordan, whose population was more than two-thirds Palestinian Arab.”
― David Meir-Levi, History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression

“The land set aside for a Palestinian state was annexed by Egypt and Jordan. It was the Arabs, not the Jews, who stole the Palestinians' land.”
― David Meir-Levi, History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression

“On its creation by the United Nations in 19 4 8, the state of Israel was attacked by five Muslim Arab nations whose goal, in the words of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, was "to push the Jews into the sea." Although outnumbered, the Israelis prevailed. But the Arab states refused to sign a peace, or to create the state that the United Nations had reserved for the Arab population on the west bank of the Jordan and in Gaza. This Arab war against the existence of the Jewish state has been waged for sixty years without let-up.”
― David Meir-Levi, History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression