Palestinian Representative to Canada Claims Israeli "Occupation" Began in 1948

In comments eerily reminiscent of Libby Davies of the NDP and Helen Thomas, formerly of Hearst News Service, Linda Sobeh Ali, the Charge D'Affaires for the Palestinian General Delegation to Canada, claimed in an interview on CBC Radio's "The Current" news program yesterday that Israel has been occupying territories since 1948, the year Israel declared its independence. In doing so, Ms. Sobeh Ali has essentially claimed that Israel has no right to exist.
Just yesterday morning, CBC Radio's "The Current" news program featured an interview with host Anna Maria Tremonti and Linda Sobeh Ali, the Charge D'Affaires for the Palestinian General Delegation to Canada on the topic of the Palestinian bid for statehood.

In comments eerily reminiscent of Libby Davies of the NDP and Helen Thomas, formerly of Hearst News Service, Ms. Sobeh Ali claimed that Israel has been occupying territories since 1948, the year Israel declared its independence:

Sobeh Ali: "Remember that Israel was created by war and then they went unilaterally and submitted their application to the UNand they were admitted as a state. We are occupied in result of that war that Israel used to occupy and then they were declared as a state."