Monday, December 2, 2013

Love of the Land: The passing of Resolution 181 and the day the war began

Love of the Land: The passing of Resolution 181 and the day the war began: "Robert Werdine..
Times of Israel..
30 November '13..

Sixty-five years ago today, after the passing of Resolution 181, the United Nations partition that created a Jewish and an Arab state in Palestine on November 29, 1947, the Arabs, both in and outside Palestine, rejected it and declared it illegitimate, something they had been saying from the beginning. Arab UN delegates warned that any attempt to implement the partition would lead to war; after the partition vote was taken, the Arab delegations in the UN walked out of the plenum.
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