Kerry’s Speech References to 1947 UN Partition Resolution Omit Decades of Palestinian Rejectionism
(CNSNews.com) – In his keynote Mideast speech Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that both Israelis and Palestinians had “incorporated into” their respective “foundational documents” a 1947 U.N. General Assembly resolution that divided the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River into a Jewish state and an Arab one.
While perhaps technically accurate, the bald assertion provides far from the full picture of the two sides’ response to UNGA resolution 181, also known as the Partition Plan, nearly seven decades ago.
While Jewish leaders accepted the measure, Arab and Palestinian leaders angrily rejected it.
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