I'm unsure what you mean as reported.
This is from the "United States Holocaust memorial Museum"
"The best estimates of the number of victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, including the killing center at Auschwitz-Birkenau, between 1940 and 1945 are the following: Jews (1,095,000 deported to Auschwitz, of whom 960,000 died); Poles (147,000 deported, of whom 74,000 died); Roma (23,000 deported, of whom 21,000 died); Soviet prisoners of war (15,000 deported and died); and other nationalities (25,000 deported, of whom 12,000 died). In total, at least 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz of whom approximately 1.1 million died there."
As you see, they are saying 960,000.
"The plaque at Auschwitz reads 1,500,000."
There is also some disagreement between some professors in Israel as to the numbers. Some have it below one million over all.
This is all very taxing, so, as to The state of Israel, I'll address that tomorrow.
Good night , sleep well.
Good Morning CBS,
The question of “The state of Israel” is not so cut and dried. First of all read The United Nations resolution 181. Then you can research and read all the official opinions, feelings and suggestions regarding this on the United States official history web sites.
But to answer your question to me; I do not believe Israel should exist in the form it does today. Again in my opinion Israel is a cancer that has been growing and spreading since 1948. And was set in motion long before that.
But I’ll let a few of the prominent “ Israeli founding Fathers” speak for me:
. David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): "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?"
"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves." Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.
Ben Gurion: In 1899, Davis Triestsch wrote to Herzl: " I would suggest to you to come round in time to the "Greater Palestine" program before it is too late... the Basle program must contain the words "Great Palestine" or "Palestine and its neighboring lands" otherwise it's nonsense. You do not get ten million Jews into a land of 25,000 Km2". " The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill -- From the Nile to the Euphrates."
"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." - Israeli prime Minister Menachem Begin in a speech to the Knesset [Israeli Parliament] quoted by Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts," New Statesman, June 25, 1982
This is from The United States Office of the Historian"
"Although the United States supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had assured the Arabs in 1945 that the United States would not intervene without consulting both the Jews and the Arabs in that region. The British, who held a colonial mandate for Palestine until May 1948, opposed both the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine as well as unlimited immigration of Jewish refugees to the region. Great Britain wanted to preserve good relations with the Arabs to protect its vital political and economic interests in Palestine."
"Soon after President Truman took office, he appointed several experts to study the Palestinian issue. In the summer of 1946, Truman established a special cabinet committee under the chairmanship of Dr.Henry F. Grady, an Assistant Secretary of State, who entered into negotiations with a parallel British committee to discuss the future of Palestine. In May 1946, Truman announced his approval of a recommendation to admit 100,000 displaced persons into Palestine and in October publicly declared his support for the creation of a Jewish state. Throughout 1947, the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine examined the Palestinian question and recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. On November 29, 1947 the United Nations adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the Partition Resolution) that would divide Great Britain’s former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948 when the British mandate was scheduled to end. Under the resolution, the area of religious significance surrounding Jerusalem would remain a corpus separatum under international control administered by the United Nations."
"Although the United States backed Resolution 181, the U.S. Department of State recommended the creation of a United Nations trusteeship with limits on Jewish immigration and a division of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab provinces but not states. The State Department, concerned about the possibility of an increasing Soviet role in the Arab world and the potential for restriction by Arab oil producing nations of oil supplies to the United States, advised against U.S. intervention on behalf of the Jews. Later, as the date for British departure from Palestine drew near, the Department of State grew concerned about the possibility of an all-out war in Palestine as Arab states threatened to attack almost as soon as the UN passed the partition resolution."
Despite growing conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews and despite the Department of State’s endorsement of a trusteeship, Truman ultimately decided to recognize the state Israel.
(You can read the official and published reaction to Truman’s decision from the State Department , CIA and his own staff on the official records)
POSITIONS ON THE LEGAL STATUS OF JERUSALEM
FACT SHEET
Also available inhttp://www.kas.de/palaestinensische-gebiete/de/pages/11509/
The legal status of Jerusalem is highly disputed between scholars and politicians. There are no legal documents that clearly settle the status of Jerusalem. In Israeli-Palestinian negotiations the discussion about the status of Jerusalem has always been postponed, like i.e. in the Oslo Accords, 1993. Therefore it does not exist any legally binding bilateral or international treaty that would clarify the legal status of Jerusalem.
We and the whole world are in deep doo doo right now CBS. We’re not going to accomplish anything with our bickering back and forth except for a little entertainment on the forum.
By the way, none of this is from moon beams on some left wing web sites.