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Student Life
February 15, 2018
But digging deeper, Israeli history itself can be defined as a quest for peace. From its founding in 1948, Israel has been on a quest for peace with the Palestinians. In 1947, the United Nations proposed a two-state solution with the passage of Resolution 181, which Israel accepted, and the Arabs rejected.
Open Democracy
February 13, 2018
The Arab acceptance was additionally tied to the settling of other outstanding resolutions from 1948, such as the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees (UN Resolution 181) and the Status of Jerusalem. Indeed, the reason that the international community does not recognise Jerusalem (that is, even WestÃÂ ...
The Chattanoogan
February 5, 2018
... to promote an understanding of Israel and its unique cultural heritage as part of Israel's 70th birthday. The establishment of Israel as an independent, democratic, sovereign state was in 1948, the day after the British Mandate over Palestine was officially terminated, in accordance with UN Resolution 181.
Arab News
January 31, 2018
When Israel was established, its declaration of independence alluded to the UN Partition Plan of 1947 as the legal basis for its establishment. UN Resolution 181 specifically reiterated Jerusalem's special status as “corpus separatum” and mandated that it should be given special international status.
The Conversation UK
January 23, 2018
She won the Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Best Essay on Jerusalem for her work, 'Is Jerusalem international or Palestinian? Rethinking UNGA Resolution 181'. Anne has spoken in the UK Parliament and at the UN Headquarters in New York on the situation of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, focusingÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
January 12, 2018
Under General Assembly Resolution 273, Israel was admitted on the condition that it grant all Palestinians the right to return to their homes and receive compensation for lost or ... Israel has NO, ZERO, ZIP business occupying PALESTINE The UN partition plan created two states, Israel and Palestine.
Asia Times
January 11, 2018
It must be said here that the Soviet Union also supported United Nations Resolution 181 because it wanted to eliminate the British influence in the region. ... When the UN plan was rejected by the Arab side, conflict erupted between the Palestinians and Israelis, and subsequently the first Arab-Israeli War inÃÂ ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
January 7, 2018
Palestinian permanent envoy to the United Nations Dr. Riyad Mansour sent on Saturday three letters to the UN to condemn Israel's “provocative” policies ... attempts to alter the status of the city, saying that any move in that direction would violate UN General Assembly resolution 181 and international law.
Ahram Online
January 4, 2018
After World War II, the newly formed United Nations organisation, which replaced the League of Nations, decided to review the mandates that the League of ... On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 181 by a majority that included the three major powers of the time, France, theÃÂ ...
Arab News
January 2, 2018
“Such a law severely changes the status of Jerusalem and creates an illegal and extrajudicial Israeli and Jewish exclusivity over all of Jerusalem — a city whose status remains that of “corpus separatum” under the UN General Assembly Resolution 181,” she said in a statement to the press following aÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 29, 2017
The Zionist movement accepted United Nations Resolution 181 of 1947, calling for the establishment of two states — one Jewish, one Arab — in Mandate Palestine. It accepted a split that excluded Jerusalem from the nascent Jewish state, with the city as a separate entity to be administered by the UnitedÃÂ ...
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
November 26, 2017
Seventy years ago, on November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 calling for the partition of Mandatory Palestine into ... when appealing to the Secretary-General as well as the Security Council of the United Nations (UN), constantly refers to that resolution as the source ofÃÂ ...
Mondoweiss
December 31, 1999
... General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution of November 29th, 1947” (resolution 181). It took Truman only a few minutes to make the official recognition. But Ben-Gurion knew that such 'frontiers' were only a start, and not an end. It turns out, that in April 1947, five months before the 1947 UNÃÂ ...
Nhan Dan Online
December 8, 2017
NDO/ VNA – A ceremony marking the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was held in Hanoi on December 7. ... belief that the two-state solution recognised by the UN General Assembly's Resolution 181 is the only premise for a just, lasting and comprehensive peace.
Irish Times
December 8, 2017
Sir, – Mahmoud El-Yousseph (December 6th) opines that the “legal status of Jerusalem is defined by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181”. ... Sir, – Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital is against international law, UN resolutions and the will of the international ...
The Independent
December 6, 2017
The legal status of Jerusalem is defined by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, which recommends the city be administered as a separate entity. When Israel applied to be admitted to the UN in 1949, it specifically recognised the legal effect of Resolution 181 on Jerusalem. The US policy ...
World Israel News
December 3, 2017
Approved in a 151-6 vote with nine abstentions, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution stated that “any actions taken by Israel, the occupying power, to impose its laws, ... 29—the anniversary of UN Resolution 181, which called for the creation of a Jewish state in British Mandatory Palestine.
Miami Herald
December 1, 2017
Pence spoke at an event marking the 70th anniversary of U.N. Resolution 181, which, on Nov. 29, 1947, called for the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. Jews embraced it while Arabs rejected it, attacking the embryonic Jewish state, hoping to wipe it off the map. Except that the Jews won, and ...
Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut
December 1, 2017
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, more famously known as the Partition Plan for Palestine, which called for the establishment of the Jewish state, Israel's U.N. Ambassador, Danny Danon, hosted a celebration titled “Israel at 70: Honoring the Vote ...
International Middle East Media Center
December 1, 2017
Hamas' Office of Refugee Affairs of the Islamic Resistance Movement stated that the United Nations committed a historic massacre against the people of ... perpetrated by the international community when it had adopted the Resolution 181, made by the United Nations General Assembly on November 29, ...
Haaretz
November 29, 2017
Speaking at event marking 70th anniversary of UN vote that established Israel, U.S. VP says 'America will always stand with Israel. ... NEW YORK — At an event marking the 70th anniversary of a United Nations vote that called for the establishment of Israel, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said that Trump is ...
Al-Monitor
November 28, 2017
29, 1947, UN Resolution 181, is found in the title given to it on the Knesset's website: “The resolution of the United Nations on the establishment of the Hebrew state.” Only at the end in parentheses does it say “partition plan.” Partition between whom? Does the decision only relate to a Hebrew state?
Jewish Journal
December 31, 1999
Finally, curse the Palestinians for rejecting the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, which would have brought peace. .... Despite the emerging Cold War, Soviets and Americans cooperated to push U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181, carving out a Jewish state and an undefined Arab territory, ...
+972 Magazine
December 31, 1999
U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947), which partitioned Palestine into two states, one Arab, one Jewish, yet it is this Resolution that still ... The Palestinians are expected to soon renew their quest for membership in the United Nations, and when they do, they should make clear that the state ...
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
December 31, 1999
Seventy years ago, on November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 calling for the partition of Mandatory Palestine into ... when appealing to the Secretary-General as well as the Security Council of the United Nations (UN), constantly refers to that resolution as the source of ...
The Canary
September 18, 2017
The two enclaves along with East Jerusalem make up the occupied Palestinian territories as per UN Resolution 181 in 1948. But officiallyÃÂ ...
Forward
September 8, 2017
... of the UN General Assembly in New York, has special significance. ... 70th anniversary of the General Assembly's adoption of resolution 181,ÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
August 22, 2017
... and was later selected to lead the Arab Liberation Army against Israeli forces following the adoption of United Nations Resolution 181(II).
MWC News
August 21, 2017
... people in Palestine; (2) the passage of UN General Assembly Resolution 181 seventy years ago proposing the partition of Palestine betweenÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com
August 18, 2017
Actually, the United Nations Partition Plan adopted by the General Assembly on November 29, 1947 (Resolution 181) already proposed a kind of ... and when it ended in early 1949, nothing of the UN resolution remained.
Xinhua
August 15, 2017
The proposal came four months ahead of the 70th anniversary of the 1947 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, whichÃÂ ...
Xinhua
August 13, 2017
In 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, which recognized the necessity to establish a Jewish state and an Arab state in theÃÂ ...
The Voice of Millions
August 10, 2017
Israel should comply with UN Resolutions Implement Res. ... General Assembly and direct Israel to comply with UN Resolutions particularly ... right since 1948 when Palestine was divided by United Nations Resolution 181.”.
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
29 (Xinhua) -- The upcoming visit of UN Secretary-General Antonio ... "also marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Resolution 181 onÃÂ ...
Daily Mirror
March 23, 2017
Underscoring the impotency of the United Nations, its new Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, shattered the hope for peace in West Asia when he ordered the removal of a report critical of Israel from a UN website, just two days after the document was ...
Evanston RoundTable
March 13, 2017
Laura Fine, D-Glenview, joined members of the Jewish Caucus and others in the General Assembly to call on all elected officials to protect fellow citizens from the discriminatory policies of the Trump Administration.
Patch.com
March 10, 2017
Laura Fine (D, IL-17) joined members of the Jewish Caucus and others in the General Assembly to call on all elected officials to protect fellow citizens from the discriminatory policies of the Trump Administration.
Yahoo Finance
March 6, 2017
... negotiations that would lead to a two-state solution, however the recent proposal by U.S President-elect Donald Trump to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and last month's U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Jewish settlement ...
Sputnik International
March 6, 2017
Netanyahu showed support for the move, while the Palestinian authorities criticized it. The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations said it would violate the UN Security Council resolutions and UN Resolution 181. The Resolution 181 of 1947 ...
rabble.ca (blog)
March 3, 2017
Canada's Undersecretary of External Affairs, who made his sympathy for Zionism clear in a March 1945 speech, chaired the First Committee that established the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in May 1947. At the First Committee ...
CSS Resources (blog)
March 3, 2017
At the end of World War II, given the British intention to give up the mandate and withdraw from Palestine, the United Nations undertook to provide a future solution for the region and for Jerusalem itself. UN General Assembly Resolution 181, adopted ...
Dissident Voice
March 2, 2017
Canada's Undersecretary of External Affairs, who made his sympathy for Zionism clear in a March 1945 speech, chaired the First Committee that established the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in May 1947. At the First Committee ...
Aish
February 25, 2017
Its heir, the United Nations, in 1947, by two-thirds majority, confirmed the establishment of a much-reduced Jewish State, as the bulk of the territory originally mandated to the Jews had been handed over to the independent kingdom of Transjordan.
LobeLog
February 23, 2017
Provide for secure and recognized international borders between Israel and a viable and contiguous Palestine, negotiated based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed equivalent swaps.
The Arab Daily News (blog)
February 21, 2017
In 1949, when the General Assembly admitted Israel as a member state of the UN, Resolution 273 III, recalled already that Israel is breaching Resolution 181 demanding withdrawal from land it annexed beyond the partition plan, and refusing the return of ...
Daily Mirror
February 19, 2017
The plan specified borders for new Arab and Jewish states and an area of Jerusalem which was to be administered by the UN under an international regime.
Scoop News
February 17, 2017
He said that Resolution 181 was a resolution supported by all the Permanent Members. It were only India and Iran (under Shah's ... Israel is under the spanner of the United Nations and must be obliged to implement all resolutions of the Security ...
The Australian Financial Review
February 14, 2017
Re Bob Hawke's "Time to recognise the state of Palestine" (February 14). Hawke was correct when he cited the UN establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, resolution 181 (which Australia supported) - one state for the Jews and one state for the Arabs.
The Wire
February 8, 2017
Perhaps a widely-anticipated Trump twitter message in his characteristic style would read: "The United Nations? One of the world's most ... alike to toe Washington's line at the UN. An early example, he pointed out, concerns the Philippines, whose UN ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
February 7, 2017
This isn't to say that Israel was wrong to embark on a nuclear program, or that it should unilaterally give up its nukes now. The political developments of the 1970s and 1980s, including the defanging of Egypt, the cauldron of the Iran-Iraq conflict ...
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