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Should the UN step in and partition Israel and Palestine according to the 1948 plan?
Israel was happy with those boundaries back then. It was the Palestinians (and surrounding Arab countries) who rejected the UN plan and started the war. If they had accepted the UN plan, the Palestinians would have had their own country for the past 60 years! (and several major wars could have been avoided)
It is obvious they will never solve things on their own, so should the UN step in now and partition the territory into two countries?
9 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Israel was originally populated by the Palestinians. The UN basically gave that land to the immigrant Jews and force many Palestinians to become refugees. That's why they are bitter because they had their land taken away like Native Americans.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Israel is an artificiality that was carved out of the Palestian's terrority. The document that gave them the right to be a country gave the Arabs no say in the process. This was done autocratically without any arbitrary party overseeing it, aside from the U.N. which already tied down to the US for influence. Israel has continued expropriating and driving out the Arabs since then, creating a massive refugee crisis that had to move en masse to Lebanon and the other surrounding states in the Arab bloc. The Arab states made it clear that they did not want Israel as a separatist state from Arab national poilitics.
A one-state solution should've been proposed in 1948. This would have stopped further waves of violence or any other factors that acted as a impediment to the peace process
- jeeper_peeper321Lv 71 decade ago
The palestinians will eventually decide to take what Israel gives them.
They have no other choice.
Just how would the UN do anything ?
You really think any country in Europe, would try and forcefully make Israel go back to the 1948 borders ?
And If not Europe, then who would ?
- 1 decade ago
They arent fighting about religion, they are fighting about basic humanitarian rights. People talking about "if rockets hit your neighborhood" nonsense, maybe blocking boarders and restraining food, water, and medical supplies for 18 months gives people the right to be pissed off. Thats what the Palestinians are.
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- reeLv 45 years ago
That grow to be sixty 5 years in the past. the alternative-makers of that era were incorrect and made a nasty mistake. they are all lengthy useless now inspite of the reality that. Its a lengthy time period in the past, interior the wake of WWII at the same time as the global grow to be an quite distinct position.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
We divide the land 50/50 or unify both states. The 50/50 division is easier, provided it keeps parity in the quality of the land.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
There is simply no answer until the region glows in the dark- and I'm not referring to night lights. I mean if the Israelis can't come up with a solution as supposedly among the smartest people in the world?
- 1 decade ago
UN should create one secular state with a constitution that defends the rights of its citizens to follow whatever religion they want.
fighting over religion = epic living in the 21st century fail!