FACT CHECK · LAND AND MIGRATION: WHO CAME FROM WHERE, AND 1948
Claim: Link: the leadership said no to the 1947 UN plan
TRUETHE ANSWER
Pointer to the partition card: UN 181, 29 Nov 1947. Jewish leaders backed it; Palestinian Arab leaders and the Arab world did not. Land shares: topic 1948-mandate-partition. Not a new card.
SOURCE
US State Dept Historian (Arab-Israeli War; Creation of Israel); Wikipedia: 1948 Arab-Israeli War
en.wikipedia.org · history.state.gov · history.state.gov
en.wikipedia.org · history.state.gov · history.state.gov
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- “Rejected the partition”
- “Said no to partition”
- “Partition 1947”
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