SherriMunnerlyn, et al,
Ah, yes, in the late 1920's, Jewish immigration began towards Palestine, beginning in the mid-to-late 1930's, with gradual but steady land purchases, and the increase in immigration made more imperative do to the pressures of Germany's arrests of Jewish citizens, traffic to the Mandated Palestine was amplified. With the confrontation in Jerusalem, many see this as "the beginning of the war."
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But the was started when the Palestinians rejected a two-state solution and the Israelis accepted the two-state solution. A series of subsequent battles have been fought. All the Arab States, except Syria, have made peace with Israel.
It should probably be worth considering that, to end the stalemate, Israel should just consider annexing the Occupied Territories. That would make it an internal security problem and not an Occupation problem. This seems like the only option that has not been exhausted. Since the Palestinians do not want to negotiate a settlement, it might default to a "winner take all" scenarion.
I don't know, just a thought.
Most Respectfully.
R
The UN did not approve the UN Partition Plan, so there was no plan for Palestinians to reject. Israel started ethnically cleansing the land of Palestine in November of 1947 and the surrounding Arab nations only began fighting with Israel after Israel began ethnically cleansing land not only set aside for the Jewish State but also villages that were supposed to be part of the Arab State, Israel started the fighting with surrounding nations by their unlawful acts of ethnic cleansing in Palestine. And the two state solution has never been offered to the Palestinian people. From November of 1947 through to the present, Israel has been engaged in acts of ethnically cleansing Palestine.
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What was the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan (a.k.a. UN General Assembly Resolution 181)?
General Reference (not clearly pro or con)
The United Nations document from 1990, titled "The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem: 1917-1988, Part II 1947-1977," contained the following description of the UN Partition Plan:
"The resolution of the General Assembly to partition Palestine, identified as resolution 181 (II), in effect constituted a recommendation 'to the United Kingdom, as the Mandatory Power, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and implementation, with regard to the future government of Palestine, of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union ...', requesting the Security Council to 'undertake the necessary measures as provided in the plan for its implementation ...'
Palestine was to be divided into an un-named 'Jewish State' and an un-named 'Arab State'. Great Britain was to withdraw its presence by 1 August 1948, however making available by 1 February 1948 to the Jewish State an area including a seaport to facilitate 'substantial immigration'. During the transitional period beginning in November 1947, the United Nations would progressively take over the administration in the entire territory, to be exercised through a Commission, and power handed over to the two States on the day of independence, not later than 1 October 1948. The two States were to be linked in an economic union.
The territory of Palestine was divided into eight parts. Three were allotted to the Jewish State, three to the Arab State. The seventh, Jaffa, was to form an Arab enclave in Jewish territory. The eighth part was to be Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under a special international régime. This was to be administered by the United Nations Trusteeship Council for an initial period of 10 years, at the end of which the scheme would be re-examined by the Council, and 'the residents of the city shall then be free to express by means of a referendum their wishes as to possible modification of the régime of the City'."
The Pro- Palestinian lies. They all do. Ethnic cleaning of the Jews by the Arabs long before 1948 had been going on for years. Hebron is just one small example