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Steve Rothman: “That is what we were just talking about, the 1947 partition plan that the Palestinians and the Arab world rejected when…”

On the recordApril 17, 2002
That is what we were just talking about, the 1947 partition plan that the Palestinians and the Arab world rejected when Israel would have been divided in half, half Palestinian, half Jewish, with Jerusalem as an international city. They rejected it. They thought they would just drive the Jews in the sea and have it all.
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Steve Rothman
New Jersey

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Discussing the 1947 partition plan during a debate on Middle East peace.

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