Israel was initially expected to repatriate the remaining Palestinians it didn't genocide - JFK Files 1961/62
(archive.is)https://archive.is/b9PFv1 -- After Israel committed genocide on the Palestinians by poisoning wells, burning villages, slaughtering villagers, and more, they were eventually expected by the international community to repatriate the remaining Palestinians they hadn't managed to kill who had fled. Israel responded by letting the world know that it had let in as many jews as Palestinians it had either killed or kicked out, and thus was not required to do jack shit in their view.
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
https://archive.is/zA7IWhttps://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v18/d152 -- Here you can see pushback on most every point that Gurion was trying to "achieve" from the special council to israel (note the name, that's how bad this shit is), a year earlier. Internally, JFK was trying to push Israel very hard to reconcile with their regional neighbors and viewed israel within the lens of a lesser undeveloped country.
https://archive.is/b9PFvhttps://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v17/d55“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.”
Ben-Gurion (Quoted on pp 855-56 in Shabtai Teveth’s Ben-Gurion
Incidentally, Vatican II was during this time. Remember that? 1-9-6-3 See it yet?
