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The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order Palestine by 11 :30 a. m. and their ships left the Palestinian waters at 12:00 p. m. that day. This is how they abandoned that country. It was an act of cruelty towards the Palestinians who suffered the most from this abandonment amid chaos. As for the Jews, they had two established organiz. ations capable of safeguarding their interests. One of them was working under the command of Menachem Begin which in fact was initially designed to be a strong terrorist group set up well before 1948, to carry out terrorist activities against the Arabs and, when necessary, even against the British. The second organiz. ation was operating under the leadership of David Ben Gurion. The Jews were receiving large supplies of arms from U. S. sources, on an ongoing basis. This set up was further divided into three or four sub-organiz. ations whose aim, besides establishing an effective government, was to not only defend lheir own territory but grab more territory from the Arabs. So, for a period of one and a half years (from 1948 to 1949), skirmishes between the Arabs and the Jews continued in which some neighbouring Arab states also participated. Although these states were assisting the Palestinian Muslims but at that point no formal declaration of war against Israel was made by any Muslim country. Generally they limited their participation to extending a helping hand lo the distressed Arabs living in Palestine. With the cessation of hostilities in 1948 when a truce agreement was reached to maintain peace in the region, the Jews had succeeded in occupying 75% of the Palestinian land as against their o riginal allocation of 56 %. This provides a fairly clear picture of the conduct of the United Nations and the behaviour of the British government and its ally, U. S. , who kept watching these developments as silent spectators much to the disadvantage of the Arabs. This episode is rich in detail, and I have all the pertinent references with me, but I do not wish to encumber my sennons with lengthy debate and complicated details. The essence of this case is that a conspiracy of the Western powers, in which the defunct League of Nations and subsequently its successor, the United Nations actively participated and the government of Britain and the U. S. played the pivotal role, resulted in the emergence of a Jewish state in Palestine which no standard ofJustice, international law, o r the Charter of the United Nations would have sanctioned. They could not have moved a step towards the creation of 215