The UN Partition Plan for Palestine Was a Two State Solution

It was 76 years ago today that the UN General Assembly voted in favor of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine. On November 29, 1947, Resolution 181 was passed with 33 countries in favor, 13 countries against along with 10 abstentions for the establishment of a Jewish and an Arab state along with Jerusalem effectively being a city-state under international control.

For all of the epithets directed towards Israel as a settler colonial state, the UN Partition Plan was in fact an example of decolonization as Palestine was under British control for nearly 30 years after the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI. 

Indeed, the UN Partition for Palestine was a two-state solution. While the Jews accepted their state, the Arabs rejected it out hand, unwilling to share land with the Jews. It is remarkable to me how many people, especially those who champion the Palestinian cause, are simply unaware of this fundamental fact. Not that it stops pro-Palestinian high school students from trying to lynch a Jewish teacher. 

Had the Arabs said yes in 1947 then there would have been a 75th anniversary of a Palestinian state just as there was a 75th anniversary celebration for Israel this year. 

Whether they refer to themselves as Arab or Palestinian, the simple fact is they did not want a Jewish state in 1947 and they do not want a Jewish state now. In point of fact, they do not want Jews around at all. Indeed, Palestinians are taught to view Jews as apes and pigs. 

Alas supposedly learned people like Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren call for a two-state solution as if it was a new idea. Somehow, I doubt Senator Warren has ever read the UN Partition Plan for Palestine, much less heard of it.