1. AFTER 1947 ISRAELI – PALESTINE CONFLICT

2. Focus: Understanding the UN’s role and how the UN functions Interpreting the vote in the UN’s decision regarding Palestine

3. The question of Palestine and Israel has commanded the attention of the UN since the organization was founded. The UN General Assembly voted the original partition of the land in November 1947 and the UN deployed its first peacekeeping operation to monitor the ceasefire lines after the war of 1948 (the War of Independence). THE UN AND PALESTINE

4. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state. It was approved on November 29, 1947 with 33 votes in favor, 13 against, 10 abstentions and one absent THE VOTE IN 1947

6. What does “Economic Union” mean? Which country looks to have gained the most land? What was the plan for Jerusalem? Refer to the General Assembly Plan of Partition Map to answer these questions:

7. Resolution 181 Vote: In favour: 33 Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian S.S.R., Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Liberia, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, Ukrainian S.S.R., Union of South Africa, U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Uruguay, Venezuela. Against: 13 Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen. Abstained: 10 Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.

8. Interpreting the Vote : Why did Britain abstain? Why did the U.S.S.R. (which was pro-Arab) vote in favour? Why did Cuba and Greece vote ‘against’ partition?

9. 1947 The Resolution (181) was accepted by the Jews in Palestine, yet rejected by the Arabs in Palestine and the Arab states. Why did the Palestinians reject the offer?

11. ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE The state of Israel was founded on 14 May 1948 and the British withdrew from Palestine  US and USSR recognition What was the Arab response?

13. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, established the state of Israel as an independent state, with the rest of the British Mandate of Palestine split into areas controlled by Egypt and Transjordan. The outcome of the War of Independence :

14. What happened to the Palestinians Arabs?

15. War of Independence or the Catastrophe? A war broke out when the Jews, certain of U.S. and Soviet support, declared their independence and the creation of a new state of Israel on May 14, 1948. When fighting ended in 1949, the Israelis had conquered more territory than had been envisioned in the U.N. plan, and the rest of the territory fell to Egypt and Jordan, rather than forming an independent Palestinian state. (see map on next slide) Palestinian Arab refugees fled to Lebanon, the West Bank, and the Gaza strip.

16. Results of the1948 War of Independence

17. Middle Eastern nations achieved independence from Europeans

19. The Palestinians proposed a separate state, claiming as their homeland the territories outside the 1948 ceasefire lines, territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. This idea found widespread support in the international community, and Israel was called on to withdraw from this land, as affirmed in UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. Looking ahead: TWO STATE SOLUTION AFTER 1970

22. ISRAEL Today