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IN A NUTSHELL
• UN Resolution 181 legitimized a Jewish state in 1947. The resolution also proposed an Arab state, but the Arabs refused to accept it and went to war against the newly declared State of Israel.
• In the late 1990s, Arab leaders sought to roll back the clock to 1947 and accept the UN partition plan recommended in Resolution 181. But their acceptance was 50 years too late. Its proposals concerning an Arab Palestinian state had become a moot point – outdated and irrelevant to current realities. For it to be accepted today would have meant the demise of the State of Israel.
• Neither references to the refugee problem nor an Israeli withdrawal constitute UN directives. They are solely recommendations upon which negotiations and reconciliation between the parties should be conducted.
• The refugee problem was never viewed as a stand-alone issue in the 1948-vintage UN Resolution. Moreover, it did not speak of Arabs alone, but of all refugees caused by the conflict. Often forgotten is that the conflict created as many or more Jewish refugees who fled the Arabs lands for their lives; a majority found refuge in Israel.
• The language of UN Resolution 194 clearly expects governments and authorities (not just Israel) to help solve the refugee problem. There were five hostile Arab governments involved in aggression and war that created the refugee problem, and the resolution expects them to be part of the solution.
• Resolution 242 is the cornerstone for “a just and lasting peace.” It calls for a negotiated solution between the parties based on “secure and recognized boundaries.”
• Resolution 1515, a ‘Blueprint for Peace’ if implemented will violate the Mandate for Palestine and international law. The Mandate clearly calls to “facilitate … and shall encourage … close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.
© 2007, Eli E. Hertz Page 3 of 4 UN Resolutions