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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 620

Partition plan

Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour addresses the General Assembly in New York, November 30, 2022. (Screenshot/UN, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 30, 2022, 9:03 pm
Palestinian envoy tells UN ‘we’re at the end of the road’ for 2-state solution
Riyad Mansour blasts United Nations partition plan on its 75th anniversary; Israeli representative unveils display on ‘Jewish Nakba’
By Luke Tress
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan launches a campaign to protest a UN decision to highlight the Palestinian right of return on the anniversary of 1947 adoption of the partition plan that saw the establishment of a Jewish state. (Shahar Azran)
November 30, 2021, 12:51 am
Israel protests as UN marks partition plan with Palestinian solidarity event
Ambassador notes that Jews accepted historic November 29, 1947, vote, while Arabs declared war; slams world body for calling for Palestinian ‘right of return’
By ToI Staff
Arthur Balfour, and the Balfour Declaration. (Wikipedia)
October 23, 2020, 1:24 am
Palestinian lawyers file lawsuit against Britain for 1917 Balfour Declaration
Activists file charges in West Bank court, say British support for Jewish national home at root of Palestinian suffering; claim they’ll take matter to London, demand accountability
By ToI Staff and AFP
Mordechai Chertoff, an American who lived in pre-state Palestine from 1947-1950, where he wrote for the Palestine Post and served in the Haganah (Courtesy Daniel Chertoff)
December 14, 2019, 9:47 am
Rediscovered: A father’s lost letters from Israel’s foundational years
Finding the letters after his father’s death, Daniel Chertoff tells stories from pre-state Israel through his dad’s experiences
By Jessica Steinberg
Mustafa hopes that the Jewish of Qamishli, Syria will be able to return once the radical Islamist factions are gone. (Ziv Genesove/ Times of Israel)
July 6, 2018, 1:49 am
Devoid of Jews for decades, one Syrian city would be ready to welcome them back
Residents of Qamishli, a liberal enclave that has grown amid the civil war, tell a ToI writer they’d greet Jewish returnees with open arms — however unrealistic that seems today
By Ziv Genesove
Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with his father Benzion Netanyahu, in Benzion's house in Jerusalem, February 5, 2009. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)
June 25, 2018, 9:49 pm
With Herzog at Jewish Agency helm, Netanyahu faces rerun of his father’s fights
Appointing a perennial critic of the PM to head the quasi-governmental body risks reopening an ideological chasm that goes back to the formation of the Israel-Diaspora relationship
By Raoul Wootliff
Former US ambassador Dan Shapiro speaks at a Times of Israel event in Jerusalem, July 2, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 14, 2018, 1:08 pm
Obama’s ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro not invited to US embassy opening
Envoy, who still lives in Israel, has praised the ‘historic’ relocation and attended Sunday’s Foreign Ministry celebration; says he has ‘very good’ ties with successor Friedman
By ToI Staff
Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro attends a farewell session at the Knesset ahead of his departure from the role on January 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 12, 2018, 7:28 pm
Obama’s envoy to Israel says embassy move to Jerusalem ‘could help end conflict’
Dan Shapiro says relocation is an ‘overdue step’ that recognizes the reality of Israel’s capital and may bring the world closer to a resolution
By ToI Staff
Senior Likud lawmaker and former head of the Shin Bet security services Avi Dichter appeals in Arabic to the residents of Gaza to abandon terror. (YouTube screenshot)
April 20, 2018, 6:16 pm
Senior Likud MK appeals directly to Gazans in Arabic: ‘Quit terror’
Avi Dichter, former head of the Shin Bet internal security service, urges ‘Alzheimer-suffering’ Gazans to ‘wake up’ and see that violence will only lead them to ‘catastrophe’
By Sue Surkes
The Queens Museum (Leo Chiou/Wikimedia Commons)
February 15, 2018, 12:51 pm
Ex-heads of NY’s Queens Museum ‘misled board’ over Israel blunder — report
In canceling and then reinstating event with US vice president, former director and her deputy showed ‘poor judgment,’ probe finds; director issues immediate rebuttal
By Sue Surkes
(Photos from this collection by Avraham Hermes and Rahamim Ben Zur; All images courtesy of Danny Goldsmith and Aden Jewish Heritage Museum)
December 6, 2017, 11:27 am
Murder, looting, burning: Remembering the Aden riots of 1947
87 Jews died in a three-day bloodbath triggered by the UN Partition vote, and carried out under the noses of British colonial rulers
By Dani Goldsmith and Sarah Ansbacher
Arnold M. Eisen
December 5, 2017, 1:47 pm
Arnold M. Eisen
Partition in the Land of Israel, then and now
We need to draw clear political borders with the Palestinians and blur the boundaries dividing Israeli society
Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed speaking at the special meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on November 29, 2017. (UN/Kim Haughton)
December 1, 2017, 12:28 pm
UN marks Palestine Day with fresh slew of resolutions condemning Israel
In first, UK breaks with EU and votes against resolution calling on Israel to give Golan Heights back to Syria
By ToI Staff
The UN votes on partition, November 29, 1947 (Courtesy of the Government Press Office, Jerusalem)
November 30, 2017, 6:49 pm
Brazilian diplomat who presided over 1947 UN vote for partition plan remembered
Ceremonies in Rio De Janeiro and southern Brazil mark memory of Oswaldo Aranha, who supported and lobbied on behalf of resolution enabling creation of Jewish state
By JTA
The results of a draft resolution on Palestinian status are posted in the United Nations headquarters, November 29, 2012 (AP/Kathy Willens)
November 30, 2017, 6:07 pm
Jerusalem ignores the UN’s forgotten partition plan of 2012 at its peril
As Israel hails General Assembly’s Resolution 181 as a harbinger of independence in 1947, few note that the same body overwhelmingly endorsed Palestinian statehood 5 years ago
By Raphael Ahren
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