Reply #15: No, and here's why: [View All]

[oberliner]

The reason why no attempt was made to set up a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza between 1948 and 1967 is because doing so would have implicitly recongize the legitimacy of the State of Israel.

No Arab state during that period believed that Israel had any legitimate claim to any of the land on which it was located.

The Palestinian national movement sought Israel's abolishment and an establishment of an independant state there.

The Palestinian Liberation organization was officially founded by the Arab League in 1964 with its stated goal being the replacement of Israel with an independant Palestinian state.

It was not until 1988 that the charter was amended to recognize Isael and consign its objectives to the creation of a Palestinian state alongside it.


Here is the text of the Palestinian National Charter:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/plocov.htm