U.N. voted to partition Palestine 68 years ago, in an unfair plan made even worse by Israel's ethnic cleansing Palestinians were 2/3rds of the population but offered 43% of land.

Ad Policy. Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, president of the UN General Assembly, shown announcing the assembly’s official adoption of the plan to partition Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish states ...

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Oct. 11, 1947 (UP) -- The United States announced qualified support of Palestine partition in the United Nations General Assembly today and drew an immediate Arab threat that ...

The U.S. was learning the full flavor of the Palestine problem and it tasted like bad medicine.On a grey-afternoon last November, the U.S. had rammed the Palestine Partition Plan through the United ...

A Times correspondent writes that the political deadlock in Palestine is complete and “therefore the recommendations of partition, which is not ideal, but which would involve the smallest amount ...

In 1947, despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations voted for the partition of Palestine and the creation of the independent Jewish state of Israel.. In 1963, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ...

LAKE SUCCESS, L.I., N.Y., Oct. 13, 1947 (UP) - Russia supported the principle of Palestine partition in the United Nations today, virtually assuring a U.N. program aiming at giving Jews and Arabs ...

The UN Partition Plan. As violence ravaged Palestine, the matter was referred to the newly formed United Nations. In 1947, the UN adopted Resolution 181, ...

A clear-eyed view of history requires confronting the fact that existing efforts to partition Palestine—starting with the 1947 two-state solution—have helped create and exacerbate rather than ...