In 1947, 33 of 57 UN member states voted in favor of the original Partition Plan. It called for the establishment in Mandatory Palestine of a Jewish and of an Arab state, and for the ...

The partition plan faced dissent within the UN General Assembly, with 33 states in favor, 13 against, and 10 abstentions. Despite the Zionist leadership in Palestine’s acceptance of the plan and ...

On November 29, 1947, the UN passed the partition plan. However, most of Palestine’s Arab neighbours voted against the resolution, opposed to a Jewish homeland on land being permanently ceded to ...

Today, Nov. 29, 2022, is the 75th anniversary of the 1947 UN Partition Plan – UN General Assembly resolution 181 – which divided the geographical area to the west of the Jordan River, into two ...

The CHAIRMAN pointed out that the Commission and the Committee referred to the document attached to the Protocol simply, as a map, not as the Partition Plan map of 29 November 1947.

On November 29, 1947, by a vote of 33 for, 13 against, and 10 abstained, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181(II) to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate in ...

As to following up on the partition plan, that was up to the parties. It was clear early on that the Palestinians and Arabs would not only reject it, but that they would actively oppose it, by ...

71 years ago, masses of Jews in Israel and the Diaspora gathered around radio transistors, fascinated by the most dramatic vote in Israel’s history. After long nerve-racking hours, in November ...

The violence and death currently playing out across Palestine and Israel was ignited by a dispute in Jerusalem where Jewish settlers have laid claim to land inhabited by Arabs.