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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Long-ago U.N. rule was sadly rejected

January 09, 2017 11:00 pm • Last Updated: January 10, 2017 4:50 pm

In the recent letter "Courageous Obama action backing 2-state ideal," (Jan. 1), the author expresses the wish that the U.S. should have "abstained" years earlier so that many Palestinian and Israeli lives could have been saved. If the Arab countries in the Middle East had abided by the 1947 U.N. Partition Resolution 181 (II), then there would have been an Arab state alongside a Jewish state in Palestine, beginning in May 1948. Thousands of lives on both sides would not have been lost.

Israel exists as a nation alongside the other nations on our planet. If the Arab nations had accepted this U.N. resolution, then they too would have had an Arab state in Palestine. Why was this Partition Resolution rejected?

Stuart Miller

Groton

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