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Explanation: The borders of the states of Palestine and Israel were drawn by a UN committee a few years after WW2. It was the great hope that, whatever the issues of the past, rational discussion and neutral arbitration could resolve future problems without war and without bloodshed.
It, uh, satisfied neither party, immediately started a shooting war, and we're still riding this atrocity carousel to this day.
In the UN's defense, at that point, tensions were so high and everything so utterly fucked by the past ~25 years that there was probably no division they could've offered that would've gotten both parties to lay down their arms.
Iirc the Israelis were happy with this. Right or wrong, their Arab neighbors and Palestine immediately declared war on them while they were celebrating.
The Israelis were actually very unhappy with it. Both the Palestinian and Israeli sides immediately rejected the partition plan.
You're talking 1947? The wiki article differs unless I'm misunderstanding you.
It's been a while since I've read about this, so I genuinely may be misremembering. Apologies if so!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+Partition+Plan%2C+a+four%2Cnumbering+twice+the+Jewish+population.
Hmm. I remember reading on it differently. It may have been that whatever account I read emphasized the hardliners. I'll have to look into it later, try to figure out if it was just a misfire in my brain or if there's some basis to what I thought.
I mean the hardliners were definitely opposed, and Ben Gurion had misgivings.