Why is Gaza separate from the West Bank/Palestine? It seems like Hamas is like a vicious dog that keeps being let off its leash and biting the neighbors. Why are the owners not held responsible for controlling the dog? Instead, it seems that Israel has locked itself into that role.
Since a majority of UN members want to admit a Palestinian State, why not let them? Wouldn't this put a burden of dispute resolution on the UN, as opposed to being a propaganda outlet for endless one-sided condemnations of Israel? I think this would be a great test of the UN's ability to live up to its charter. If it can't handle this dispute, it should go the way of the League of Nations.
Sometimes a little history can help a lot.
The U.N. "decided" this issue about 77 years ago;
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The
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the
United Nations, which recommended a
partition of
Mandatory Palestine at the end of the
British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the
UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as
Resolution 181 (II).
[1] The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States linked economically
[2] and a Special International Regime for the city of
Jerusalem and its surroundings.
The Arab state was to have a territory of 11,100 square kilometres or 42%, the Jewish state a territory of 14,100 square kilometres or 56%, while the remaining 2%—comprising the cities of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the adjoning area—would become an international zone.
[3][4] The Partition Plan, a four-part document attached to the resolution, provided for the termination of the Mandate, the gradual withdrawal of British armed forces and the delineation of boundaries between the two States and Jerusalem.
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Boundaries defined in the 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine:
Area assigned for a Jewish state = blue
Area assigned for an Arab state = green and 'red'
Planned Corpus separatum with the intention that Jerusalem would be neither Jewish nor Arab = gray and 'pink'
Armistice Demarcation Lines of 1949 (Green Line):
Israeli controlled territory from 1949
Egyptian and Jordanian controlled territory from 1948 until 1967[/img]
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en.wikipedia.org
The neighboring Arab/Muslim nations rejected this solution, as did most of the resident non-Jews.
Hence the 1948 war.
