{"id":72909,"date":"2019-09-13T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=72909"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:17:56","slug":"06-00-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=72909","title":{"rendered":"How The UN Partition Plan Led to Israel\u2019s Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"45%\" class=\"center alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/honest.png\"><!--<\/a--><\/a><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/united-nations-partition-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In Focus: How The UN Partition Plan Led to Israel\u2019s Birth<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> DOV LIPMAN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<header class=\"post-header cf\">\n<div class=\"featured\"><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UN-Partition-Plan-featured-747x400-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" title=\"In Focus: How The UN Partition Plan Led to Israel\u2019s Birth\" class=\"attachment-cheerup-main size-cheerup-main wp-post-image\" alt=\"UN Partition Plan\" src=\"https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UN-Partition-Plan-featured-747x400-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UN-Partition-Plan-featured-747x400-1.jpg 747w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UN-Partition-Plan-featured-747x400-1-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UN-Partition-Plan-featured-747x400-1-322x172.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<ul id=\"right_sidebar\"><\/ul>\n<ul id=\"left_sidebar\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"post-content description cf\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The United Nations\u2019 adoption of the 1947 Partition Plan was a key moment in the Israeli-Arab conflict, as the international community formally endorsed the creation of Jewish and Arab states side by side. Anti-Israel chants of \u201cFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u201d ignore the history of the Mideast conflict.Although conflicts and peace treaties have changed the borders from what the United Nations originally envisioned,&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/DPA\/DPR\/unispal.nsf\/0\/7F0AF2BD897689B785256C330061D253\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UN Resolution 181<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;remains relevant for three very important reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The international community formally recognized statehood for the Jews in their historical homeland.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Partition Plan called for two states for two peoples, which continues to be Israeli policy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Arab rejection of the Partition Plan demonstrated that they were not interested in establishing a Palestinian state if it meant recognizing the existence of a Jewish state.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">There is no historical record of any Arab population striving for self-determination and their own state of Palestine prior to the early decades of the 20th century.Let\u2019s review the facts.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content description cf\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Britain\u2019s Best Laid Plans<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content description cf\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Following World War I, the League of Nations partitioned the entire Ottoman Empire which included Palestine and gave the British control over Palestine. The arrangement, called \u201cthe Palestine Mandate,\u201d accepted the 1917 Balfour Declaration\u2019s commitment to establishing a \u201cnational home\u201d for the Jewish people in the land known as \u201cPalestine.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content description cf\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Arabs living in the region protested the intention to establish a national home for the Jews, killing innocent hundreds of Jews including the 1929 pogrom in Hebron which took the lives of 69 Jewish residents of the city with many more maimed and injured.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content description cf\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Following a six-month Arab armed uprising and general strike in 1937, the British established&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/the-peel-commission\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the Peel Commission<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;which&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/text-of-the-peel-commission-report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recommended<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;dividing the land into two states \u2013 a Jewish one and an Arab one. This first partition plan included a population transfer, to insure that Jews lived in the Jewish state and Arabs in the Arab state.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The recommendations also included a series of economic measures \u2013 including the Jewish state paying the Arab state since most of the Arab income until this point had come from Jewish employment. Jerusalem, and a stretch of land reaching to the Mediterranean, would remain under British control with international supervision<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"660\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-163885\" alt=\"Peel Commission Map\" src=\"https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Peel-Commission-Map-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Peel-Commission-Map-1.jpg 755w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Peel-Commission-Map-1-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Peel-Commission-Map-1-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Peel-Commission-Map-1-698x1024.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Arab leadership rejected the Peel commission\u2019s partition plan while the Jewish leadership accepted it as a basis for negotiations. But a&nbsp; year later, the British government declared that \u201cthe political, administrative and financial difficulties involved in the proposal to create independent Arab and Jewish States inside Palestine are so great that this solution of the problem is impracticable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Prelude to the UN Partition Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ten years of turmoil in the land followed, leading to the British decision in February 1947 to end their Mandate for Palestine. London handed the problem over to the UN. The UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was created to determine what to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The committee returned with its&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/united-nations-special-committee-on-palestine-unscop\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>recommendation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;in August: a partition plan that left Jerusalem under international control but vastly different borders than what the Peel commission proposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Jewish state would include the Eastern Galilee, the coast from Haifa to Rehovot, and most of the Negev. The Arab state would include the central and western Galilee, Acre, the high ground of Judea and Samaria (now known as the West Bank), Jaffa, and the southern coast from north of Ashdod to the Egyptian border, including the Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"673\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-156418\" alt=\"UN Partition Plan of 1947\" src=\"https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-UN-Partiion-Plan-of-1947.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-UN-Partiion-Plan-of-1947.jpg 750w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-UN-Partiion-Plan-of-1947-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-UN-Partiion-Plan-of-1947-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-UN-Partiion-Plan-of-1947-684x1024.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The UN Partition Plan\u2019s proposed Arab state made up 43 percent of Palestine including all of the high ground (not counting Jerusalem), plus one-third of the coastline. The Arab state would have control over all the main aquifers which supplied water to the entire Palestine. The Jewish state made up 56% of the land mass, most of which was in the barren Negev desert which at that time was not suitable for urban development or for agriculture. The Jewish state was given sole access to the Sea of Galilee which was crucial for its water supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">While the plan did its best to best to separate between Jewish and Arab populations, there was going to be a large Arab minority in the Jewish state (45%), and an insignificant Jewish minority (a mere one percent) in the Arab state. The plan dictated that the Jewish and Arab minorities would become full-fledged citizens of the states in which they lived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Arab leadership rejected the committee\u2019s recommendations, stating that they \u201cconcluded from a survey of Palestine history that Zionist claims to that country had no legal or moral basis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Jewish leadership criticized the boundaries of the proposal but agreed to accept the plan if \u201cit would make possible the immediate re-establishment of the Jewish State with sovereign control of its own immigration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But Arab leaders did not stop at simply rejecting the Partition Plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">An Egyptian newspaper quoted Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League saying: \u201cI hope the Jews do not force us into this war because it will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similarly to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jamal Husseini, a member of the Arab leadership promised that if the UN proposal was accepted, \u201cThe blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri al-Said, made it clear that if a Jewish state was established, \u201cWe will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in.\u201d He then went a step further and declared that \u201csevere measures should be taken against all Jews in Arab countries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The threats to Jews in Arab countries continued when on November 24, just five days before the UN vote on the proposal, the Egyptian representative to the UN told the General Assembly that \u201cthe lives of 1,000,000 Jews in Moslem countries would be jeopardized by the establishment of a Jewish state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The UN Adopts the Partition Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Despite all of these threats, on November&nbsp; 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the partition plan. There results were 33 in favor, 13 against, 10 abstention, and one absent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Jewish people celebrated the outcome. David Ben Gurion declared, \u201cI know of no greater achievement by the Jewish people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Arabs rejected the result. Haj Amin al-Husseini,the mufti of Jerusalem told the Al Sarih newspaper that the Arabs \u201cwould continue fighting until the Zionists were annihilated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Jews were well aware of the threat which they faced. Menachem Begin said that the Arabs would certainly attack and \u201cwill be a war on our existence and future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The War of Independence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The British Mandate ended on May 14, 1948. Earlier that day, the Jewish People\u2019s Council led by Ben Gurion declared a Jewish state \u2013 based on the results of the November 29, 1947 UN vote for partition of the Palestine. The very next day Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon began their all-out attack to destroy the Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As a result of that war which ended in stages during the first half of 1949, the Jewish state controlled 78% of Palestine, as opposed to the 56% it was given under the UN Proposal. Jordan took control of the high ground known as the West Bank, Egypt took control of the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem was divided with Western Jerusalem belonging to Israel and Eastern Jerusalem belonging to Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">David Ben Gurion declared that Israel was no longer bound by the Partition Plan. As the Jews fought for their lives all alone, the UN had done nothing to implement Resolution 181, allowing the Arabs to attack the fledgling Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"717\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-156647\" alt=\"Independence War map\" src=\"https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Israel-map-1948-FINAL-BBB.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Israel-map-1948-FINAL-BBB.jpg 564w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Israel-map-1948-FINAL-BBB-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/s22592.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Israel-map-1948-FINAL-BBB-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In addition, a majority of Arabs \u2013 around 720,000 people \u2013 fled from the Jewish areas, leaving a much smaller Arab minority of around 20%, who were offered full citizenship in Israel. In eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank \u2014 controlled by Jordan \u2014 no Jews remained. Likewise for the Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Moreover, more than 300,000 Jews who were attacked in Arab lands during the war, made their way towards Israel and helped to populate the fledgling Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Aftermath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Arab leadership continued its efforts to destroy the Jewish state including the Six Day War in 1967 during which seven Arab countries \u2013 Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Algeria \u2013 sought to \u201cFree Palestine.\u201d During that war, Israel gained control of the West Bank from Jordan, the Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel has made numerous proposals of swapping land for peace based on the premise of that original UN partition plan in 1947 providing for two states \u2013 one Arab and one Jewish \u2013 in Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">To date, two Arab countries have accepted. In 1979 Egypt gave official recognition to the Jewish state and Israel pulled out of the Sinai in exchange for peace, and in 1994 Jordan gave official recognition to the Jewish state and Israel recognized the special role of Jordan in Muslim Holy shrines in Jerusalem and agreed to provide Jordan with all its water needs in exchange for peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">More than 80 years of conflict have proven that Palestine will not \u201cbe free\u201d of Jews. Six million Jews now live in the strong, prosperous and flowing Jewish state. Once Arabs and their supporters around the world understand the history and come to this conclusion, efforts can be made to improve the freedoms and qualities of life of all residents of the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"content-alignment\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\" id=\"watch-description\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Focus: How The UN Partition Plan Led to Israel\u2019s Birth DOV LIPMAN The United Nations\u2019 adoption of the 1947 Partition Plan was a key moment in the Israeli-Arab conflict, as the international community formally endorsed the creation of Jewish and Arab states side by side. 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