From the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 to the present day, the plight of the Palestinian people has been one of blood, starvation and violence.

The Palestinians
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY

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Jonathan Dimbleby was a fine television journalist who has become in recent years a widely acknowledged historian of the Second World War. But well before this, while a working journalist, he wrote in 1979 a book on The Palestinians. He was provoked into doing this by an absurd and morally objectionable statement by Golda Meir, the then prime minister of the young Israeli state. She said that there were no Palestinians. In fact the new Israeli state had been made out of what had been for centuries a country which had been home for both Palestinians and Jews.

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