The Palestine Post. “Partition Approved by More than 2 / 3 - 33 to 13.”

(ISRAEL, STATE OF)

Jerusalem

Sunday, November 30th , 1947

Printed Newspaper Broadsheet. Complete in four pages

On November 29th, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted with a 2/3 majority to partition western Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. Over 75% of the land allocated to the Jews was desert. Desperate to find a haven for the remnants of European Jewry after the Holocaust, the Jewish population accepted the plan which accorded them a diminished state. The Arabs, intent on preventing any Jewish entity in Palestine, rejected it. For the full text of the UN Partition resolution, see Walter Laqueur (Ed.), The Arab-Israeli Reader; A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict (1969) pp.113-22