

One State, Two State, No State, New State

Passed in the UN General Assembly by a majority vote of 33 to 13 with 10 abstentions on November 29, 1947, UNGA Resolution 181 outlined a soft partition, not a hard separation between Jewish and Arab states in Palestine. It actually laid out a loose confederation between the two states with an economic union — including a common currency, a customs union and cooperative mechanisms for other common projects and institutions. It also included an international zone compromising all of Jerusalem and some neighboring towns, including Bethlehem. Yet not this nor any resolution recognizing Jewish sovereignty anywhere in Palestine was peacefully accepted by Palestinian Arabs at the time, who immediately launched a war intended to destroy the Yishuv (Palestine’s autonomous Jewish community).
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If J Currents refused to accept this eminently reasonable piece from Muraskin then I’m afraid the time has come to drop my J Currents sub after many years.
BTW, those who object to the Israelis calling the “West Bank” “Judea and Samaria” should notice that the map of the UN partition proposal and the resolution itself called it “Judea” and “Samaria”–only after the Jordanians conquered the territory in 1948 and annexed it was the name changed by the conquerors to “the West Bank” of Jordan.