PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoHuzzah! The UN's first great victory for peace and stability!lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarepopcap200@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-29 days agoYou’re talking 1947? The wiki article differs unless I’m misunderstanding you. It’s been a while since I’ve read about this, so I genuinely may be misremembering. Apologies if so! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine#%3A~%3Atext=The+Partition+Plan%2C+a+four%2Cnumbering+twice+the+Jewish+population.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoHmm. I remember reading on it differently. It may have been that whatever account I read emphasized the hardliners. I’ll have to look into it later, try to figure out if it was just a misfire in my brain or if there’s some basis to what I thought.
minus-squarepopcap200@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoI mean the hardliners were definitely opposed, and Ben Gurion had misgivings.
You’re talking 1947? The wiki article differs unless I’m misunderstanding you.
It’s been a while since I’ve read about this, so I genuinely may be misremembering. Apologies if so!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine#%3A~%3Atext=The+Partition+Plan%2C+a+four%2Cnumbering+twice+the+Jewish+population.
Hmm. I remember reading on it differently. It may have been that whatever account I read emphasized the hardliners. I’ll have to look into it later, try to figure out if it was just a misfire in my brain or if there’s some basis to what I thought.
I mean the hardliners were definitely opposed, and Ben Gurion had misgivings.