Six of the 13 states voting against resolution 181 were Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Yemen - the then entire membership of the Arab League with the exception of Transjordan which had not yet been admitted to the United Nations. Arab outrage at the proposed Resolution clearly failed to win the day in the General Assembly. The Arabs were simply not prepared to accept the overwhelming international support for Resolution 181. Their failure to do so has been the root cause for everything that has occurred since then in relation to Palestine. Even today Articles 19 and 20 of the PLO Covenant proclaim that the partition of Palestine in 1947 was illegal and the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine and everything that has been based on them are deemed null and void. Respect for this body of international law still has no place in the Arab lexicon. No amount of crocodile tears can ever hope to succeed in bringing about a 22nd Arab State in all of the West Bank and Gaza. This is the clear message to be understood on the 41st Anniversary of Resolution 181. Redrawing the boundary lines between Israel, Egypt and Jordan to allocate sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza between them represents the last - and now the only - hope for peace between Jews and Arabs. Until the United Nations abandons the notion of three states in former Palestine its image and prestige will continue to remain at rock bottom. It has become the victim of its own gutlessness.

He was awarded the 85/86 USSR Lenin peace prize . He also declared : Reagan was the butcher of my people . Enough to know what kind of person this "father" is