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Thus, thirty-one years after British promises of independence for Palestine, the Arabs witnessed the ultimate betrayal — the establishment, in their midst, of a new colony by the world’s big powers, controlled, not by Middle Eastern natives, but by Europeans. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who had lived in peace on their own land were destined never to see their homeland again.

Thus, thirty-one years after British promises of independence for Palestine, the Arabs witnessed the ultimate betrayal — the establishment, in their midst, of a new colony by the world’s big powers, controlled, not by Middle Eastern natives, but by Europeans. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who had lived in peace on their own land were destined never to see their homeland again.

James Abourezk (US senator) “The Relentless Israeli Propaganda Machine”, 1978