United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

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The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a 1947 UN proposal to divide British Mandate Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, laying a key diplomatic foundation for the later establishment of Israel.


Statements (53)
Predicate Object
instanceOf United Nations General Assembly resolution
diplomatic proposal
partition plan
abstentions 10
acceptedBy Jewish Agency for Palestine
adoptedBy United Nations General Assembly
adoptionDate 1947-11-29
alsoKnownAs Resolution 181 (II)
UN Partition Plan for Palestine
UNGA Resolution 181
containsProvision guarantees for minority rights
protection of religious and holy sites
timetable for withdrawal of British forces
documentType General Assembly resolution text with annexed maps
followedBy United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
geographicScope territory of Mandatory Palestine excluding Transjordan
historicalContext Holocaust and Jewish refugee crisis
aftermath of World War II
end of British rule in Palestine
implementedBy State of Israel (in part)
influencedEvent 1948 Arab–Israeli War
Israeli Declaration of Independence
keyOpponents Arab states
India
Pakistan
keySupporters Canada
France
Soviet Union
United States
legalCharacterization non-binding recommendation under UN Charter Chapter IV
legalStatusOfJerusalem corpus separatum under international administration
mapAnnexes Plan of partition with economic union
notImplementedBy Arab states
proposedCreationOf Arab state
Jewish state
proposedDivisionOf British Mandate of Palestine
proposedInternationalRegimeFor Bethlehem
Jerusalem
recommendedEconomicUnionBetween proposed Arab state
proposed Jewish state
recommendedTerminationOf British Mandate for Palestine
regionAllocatedToArabState Gaza Strip and parts of the coastal plain
central highlands of the West Bank
regionAllocatedToJewishState coastal plain including Tel Aviv–Jaffa area
eastern Galilee
rejectedBy Arab Higher Committee
Arab League
resolutionNumber 181
session Second session of the United Nations General Assembly
subject partition of Mandatory Palestine
votesAgainst 13
votesFor 33
votingOutcome adopted

Referenced by (15)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) ("UN Partition Plan for Palestine")
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) ("Partition of Palestine resolution")
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine ("UN Partition Plan for Palestine")
alsoKnownAs
Arab–Israeli War of 1948 ("United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181")
Question of Palestine
relatedTo
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) ("Proposed United Nations Trusteeship Council for Jerusalem")
administeredBy
Israeli Declaration of Independence ("United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181")
basisIn
Arab–Israeli War of 1948
cause
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) ("Corpus separatum for Jerusalem")
establishedConceptOf
creationOfStateOfIsrael
legalContext
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine ("Plan of partition with economic union")
mapAnnexes
British Mandate for Palestine
partitionProposal
Zionism ("UN Partition Plan for Palestine")
relatedEvent
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) ("Partition of Mandatory Palestine")
subject
creationOfStateOfIsrael ("UN General Assembly Resolution 181")
UNResolutionNumber

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