UN Resolution after UN resolution Israel has thumbed its nose at those it deigns stand in its way of a larger nation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_181
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a plan for the future government of Palestine. The Plan was described as a Plan of Partition with Economic Union which, after the termination of the British Mandate, would lead to the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem. On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan as Resolution 181(II).[2]
The Plan was accepted by the leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine, through the Jewish Agency.
The MacDonald White Paper of May 1939 declared that it was "not part of [the British government's] policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State" and sought to eliminate Jewish immigration to Palestine. The Jewish Agency hoped to persuade the British to restore Jewish immigration rights, and cooperated with the British in the war against Fascism. Aliyah Bet was organized to spirit Jews out of Nazi controlled Europe, despite the British prohibitions. The White Paper also led to the formation of Lehi, a small Jewish terrorist organization which opposed the British, and fought on the side of the Axis, throughout the war.
So one one hand you have the Balfour agreement and much later the MacDonald White paper which negates British interest in Palestine from becoming a Jewish state.
I'm just posting facts, Shira. Perhaps MacDonald was a racist bigot, but it looks like at one point that British interest did not lay with a Jewish state in Palestine.
The UN recognized Israel, and it is now recognizing the need for a Palestinian state. You can throw whatever shizzle you want to see what sticks, but this is not about your wants.
The UN will have the final say, and you can either have a good cry over it and stamp your feet, or you can realize that Israel should look towards the future and not 3,000 years in the past.
Get over it.
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