Who is responsible for the refugee problem?
The basic principle for UNRWA and the Arabic position formulated in UN resolution 194, is the claim that the Palestinians were expelled from Israel for no fault of their own. This is in complete oblivion of the fact that, prior to 1948, the Arabs in Israel rejected every compromise offered to them and consistently took recourse to terrorist actions against the Jewish population, including the pogroms of 1919-1920, 1929, 1936-1939, as well as killings on the roads and inside settlements throughout the period 1919-1947. The Palestinians were given the opportunity to establish a state of their own in the Land of Israel in 1937, following the recommendations of the Peel Committee. They could establish their state in 1947 after the UN voted to divide the country between them and the Jews. The Arabs, however, refused to accept the Jewish people’s right for self determination and its historic linkage to the country. Immediately following the UN declaration, they attacked the Jewish settlement
