Reply #98: I said no such thing.

[Gimel]

I did not contradict your post #54 in my post #61, but in several places in this thread you say that I do. Please go back and read carefully.

Ben-Gurion and Meir were ready to accept statehood (and yes, you said Israel here, even though Israel did not yet exist as a state). They were not entirely happy with the planned partition. I think that they knew, and the UN knew, that the Palestinians were not ready for statehood. Israel's provisional government was in place on May 14, 1948. According to the Partition Plan, preparations would be made to ensure that each separate state had it's own constitution and democratic government. The attacks that followed the announcement of the Plan, and subsequently Israel's unilateral announcement of statehood (the Mandate was to end no later than August 1, 1948).

On September 3, 1947, the UN Special Committee on Palestine recommended ending the Mandate as soon as possible, rejected a bi-national solution as unworkable, and recommended partition.

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Recommendation I. Termination of the Mandate
It is recommended that
The Mandate for Palestine shall be terminated at the earliest practicable date.
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3. The basic conflict in Palestine is a clash of two intense nationalisms. Regardless of the historical origins of the conflict, the rights and wrongs of the promises and counter-promises, and the international intervention incident to the Mandate, there are now in Palestine some 650,000 Jews and some 1,200,000 Arabs who are dissimilar in their ways of living and, for the time being, separated by political interests which render difficult full and effective political co-operation among them, whether voluntary or induced by constitutional arrangements.
4. Only by means of partition can these conflicting national aspirations find substantial expression and qualify both peoples to take their places as independent nations in the international community and in the United Nations.
5. The partition solution provides that finality which is a….


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Other solutions were explored by the UN Committee, so the entire report is interesting and informative. It will help you get a better picture of the situation.

The rejection of the bi-national idea was made by the committee:


. Following the rejection of the extreme solutions in its informal discussions, the Committee devoted its attention to the bi-national State and cantonal proposals. It considered both, but the members who may have been prepared to consider these proposals in principle were not impressed by the workability of either. It was apparent that the bi-national solution, although attractive in some of its aspects, would have little meaning unless provision were made for numerical or political parity between the two population groups, as provided for in the proposal of Dr. J. L. Magnes. This, however, would require the inauguration of complicated mechanical devices which are patently artificial and of dubious practicality.

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The full document contains more details.