Transcription of UN Resolution 181 – The Partition Plan
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UN Resolution 181 – The Partition Plan
1 UN Resolution 181 The Partition plan November 29, 1947 Eli E. Hertz In 1947 the British put the future of western Palestine into the hands of the United Nations, the successor organization to the League of Nations which had established the Mandate for Palestine. A UN Commission recommended partitioning what was left of the original Mandate western Palestine into two new states, one Jewish and one Arab. Jerusalem and its surrounding villages were to be temporarily classified as an international zone belonging to neither polity. What resulted was Resolution 181 [known also as the 1947 Partition plan ], a nonbinding recommendation to Partition Palestine, whose implementation hinged on acceptance by both parties Arabs and Jews. The Resolution was adopted on November 29, 1947 in the General Assembly by a vote of 33-12, with 10 abstentions.
Some thought the Partition Plan could be revived, but by the end of the war, Resolution 181 had become a moot issue as realities on the ground made the establishment of an armistice-line [the “Green Line”] – a temporary ceasefire line expected to be followed by peace treaties the most constructive path to solving – the conflict.
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