The 1918 "King-Crane Commission Report" - U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson takes a democratic headcount in Palestine

When WW-I ended, no one could reconcile the claims of Arabs, Zionists, British & French so, in 1919, Woodrow Wilson and his democracy-mad Americans "dispatched the King-Crane Commission to the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire to ascertain the wishes of their inhabitants regarding the postwar settlement of their territories." [Britannica]

The King-Crane report stated:

u 90% of Palestine's inhabitants were nonJewish & did NOT want a Jewish state in Palestine;

u If they are given Palestine, "Zionists looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants."

u The King-Crane Commission said that a Jewish state in Palestine would violate the Palestinian Arabs' right to self-determination. They recommended that Zionists respect the wishes of Palestine's inhabitants & find another place to plant the Jewish state.

The Zionists were furious! They didn’t want democracy; they didn’t give a damn about “the will of the people.” The Zionists wanted Palestine, no matter what they had to do to get it. So they simply “rewrote” the history of the conflict. The usual versions of Israel's history either don't mention The King-Crane Commission Report or they minimize its importance. Anyone who believes in Democracy must consider the King-Crane Commission's official report—which even now can be documented by any interested partyment agency—irrefutable proof that:

u In 1919, even after 30 years of iintensive Jewish emigration into Palestine (inspired by Theodore Herzl’s The Jewish State, published in 1898), 90% of Palestine’s inhabitants were non-Jewish and did not want a Jewish state in Palestine. The will of the people was clear

u The Zionists knew they were actinng against the will of the people.

u The Zionists knowingly subverted Democracy.

u The Government of the United Stattes confirmed the legitimacy of the claim that Palestinians make today

Some Quotes from the Commission'ss Report

u "a national home for the Jewwish people is not equivalent to making Palestine into a Jewish State."

u "nor can the erection of succh a Jewish State be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine."

u "In his address of July 4, 11918, President Wilson laid down the following principle as one of the four great 'ends for which the associated peoples of the world were fighting': 'The settlement of every question, whether of territory or of political relationship upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not upon the basis of the material interest or advantage of any other nation or people which may desire a different settlement for their own exterior influence or mastery."

u "If that principle is to rulle, and so the wishes of Palestine's population are to be decisive as to what is to be done to Palestine, then it is to be remembered that the non-Jewish population of Palestine—nearly nine-tenths of the whole—are emphatically against the entire Zionist program. To subject a people so minded to unlimited Jewish immigration, and to steady financial and social pressure to surrender the land, would be a gross violation of the principles just quoted, and of the peoples' rights, though it kept within the forms of the law."

u "No British officer, consultted by the Commissioners, believed that the Zionist program could be carried out except by force of arms."

u "That of itself is evidence of a strong sense of injustice of the'Zionist program.”

u "The fact came out repeatedlly in the Commission's conference with Jewish representatives that the Zionists looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine.''

u "the initial claim, often submitted by Zionist representatives, that they have a 'right' to Palestine, based on an occupation of two thousand years ago, can hardly be seriously considered."

Among other things, the indigenous Arab population—the people who actually lived in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, etc.—had been promised control over their own countries at a price: IF they helped the Allies overthrow the Turkish Army that occupied their land.

They did.

Not only did the Zionists have no connection to Palestine for the last 2000 years, they didn't participate in the fight to take it back from the Ottoman Turks—World War I.

The Jewish claim on Palestine, when all the crap is removed, boils down to this: “We haven’t lived here for two thousand years but God gave us this land so you have a moral obligation to move out of your home and off the land your family has owned for hundreds of years and give it to