One of the most enduring questions surrounding the creation of Israel is not whether the United Nations recommended partitioning Mandatory Palestine in 1947. That is well documented. The more difficult question is whether the governments voting in favor of Resolution 181 understood that much of the Arab population living in Palestine opposed the proposal. The historical evidence leaves little...
History often leaves us with uncomfortable questions that have no simple answers. One of those questions emerges from Palestine in 1947. The United Nations General Assembly voted to recommend partitioning Mandatory Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states through Resolution 181. Less than a year later, the State of Israel declared independence. War followed almost immediately, reshaping the...
