debut: 2/16/17
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In reply to Halliwell
This was the solution you Brits negotiated in the 1940s for Israel and Palestine;
give it to the UN.
In the 1940s, as the British Mandate over Palestine was coming to an end, the British government found itself caught between mounting pressures: Jewish calls for a homeland, spurred on by the horrors of the Holocaust, and Palestinian Arab demands for independence and majority rule. The British, weary from the Second World War and unable to reconcile the competing aspirations, sought various solutions during their administration.
By 1947, the British essentially handed the problem over to the United Nations, admitting they could not reach a workable compromise themselves.
The UN then proposed its own partition plan (UN Resolution 181), which recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states, with Jerusalem under international control. The Jewish Agency accepted the partition, seeing it as a step toward statehood, but the Arab leadership rejected it, arguing it was unfair and violated majority rule. Tensions erupted into violence, leading to the end of the British Mandate in May 1948 and the subsequent declaration of the State of Israel, followed by the first Arab-Israeli war.
The British failed in negotiating a lasting solution themselves; instead, the issue was escalated to the UN, whose partition proposal set the stage for decades of ongoing conflict.
But now you Brits are so innocent.
