Irwin Cotler, Mark L. Berlin and Alan H. Kessel/The Globe and Mail: Jewish leadership accepted partition. Arab leadership rejected it.
That rejection was their right. What was not their right was launching a war aimed at destroying the newly declared Jewish state. Arab leaders spoke openly of a war of annihilation.
The tragedy that followed, including Palestinian displacement, must be understood within that reality.
Yet the museum largely omits this essential context…