As the planned partition of Palestine loomed in April 1948, Arab gunmen attacked a convoy of medical staff members and patients trying under armed guard to reach Hadassah Hospital, also on Mount Scopus.
This country vigorously supported the plan for partition with economic union recommended by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine and by the General Assembly.
In November 1947, the Jews accepted the UN's plan to partition Palestine, but the Arabs rejected it.
In 1947, Arabs rejected the United Nations plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, and when Israel declared its independence in 1948, five Arab nations attacked.
He dismissed calls for a timed withdrawal and emphasized that he and Mr. Maliki would oppose any plan to partition the country.
Following the UN plan to partition Palestine, published in November 1947, the British announced their impending departure and the country entered its most lawless, anarchic and febrile period.
In those early cold war days, the US and USSR both supported that month's UN plan to partition the country into separate Jewish and Arab states.
The proposal was dismissed by the Bush administration, and Mr. Biden complained that it had been misconstrued as a plan to partition the country.
On June 3 , 1947 Clement Attlee, the British prime minister, announced the plan for partition; it was accepted by Congress and the Muslim league.
Modern history offers few examples of politicians' ability to plan for partition, especially as a prescription to forestall pending violence or to guarantee the resolution of long-term tensions, particularly on the Asian continent.
