MIDEAST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: United Nations Partition Plan For Palestine, David Ben-Gurion, Jewish Agency For Israel

• School: U of M
• Department: Middle East Studies
• Course: MIDEAST 207
• Professor: Yaron Z. Eliav

Document Summary

Mandates around world succeeding (ex: syria, jordan, iraq, lebanon, egypt) british tell un that religious conflict in i/p makes success of mandate impossible un. Partition plan of 1947: 2 states: arab state (gaza strip, central hills, galilee) & Jewish state (seashore plains & negev) & jerusalem: exterritorial (belongs to un) Jewish agency accepts plan, arab leaders reject plan, arab league created by other newly independent nations in mideast & n. africa rejects plan b/c many. Arabs would have been left on jewish side of line partition plan cannot be implemented b/c only jews accept british announce they plan to leave i/p in may, 1948 british leave on may 14, 1948 may 14, 1948: jewish agency establishes. State of israel , declares itself first parliament, names david ben gurion leader: we are going to establish the state of israel based on the un"s partition plan may 15,