UN Partition Plan for Palestine — GA Res 181(II) (Nov 29 1947)
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The 1947 UN vote to split Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state set in motion conflicts still shaping the world today.
Who they are
UN General Assembly Resolution 181(II), adopted November 29, 1947, the plan to partition British-run Palestine.
What they do
It proposed dividing the territory into an independent Jewish state and an independent Arab state, with Jerusalem and Bethlehem placed under international administration.
How it works
The resolution passed 33-13-10 following a UN commission's recommendation; the Arab states and Palestinian leadership rejected it, and Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948 as the British Mandate ended. The engine places it as the Palestine case of 1947's wave of managed decolonization and engineered partitions — a parallel of that same year's Partition of India, not the same event — and notes this node corrects an earlier mistake that had wrongly attached Israeli-intelligence records to the India partition.
Why it matters
It's a founding-layer event in a broader 1947 pattern of drawing new borders as empires withdrew. The engine treats it as structure and history, explicitly keeping the focus on the mechanism, never on ethnicity.
The engine's record — word for word
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181(II), adopted Nov 29 1947 (33-13-10): the plan to partition the British Mandate of Palestine into an independent Jewish state and an independent Arab state, with Jerusalem/Bethlehem a corpus separatum under international administration [PRIMARY: UN GA Res 181(II)]. Followed the recommendation of UNSCOP; the Arab states and Palestinian leadership rejected it; Israel declared independence May 14 1948 as the Mandate ended. Engine placement: the Palestine instance of the 1947 managed-decolonization/engineered-partition wave — a PARALLEL of the same year's Partition of India (partition_1947, Radcliffe Line), NOT the same event. This node corrects a prior mis-weld that had bolted Israeli-intelligence records onto the INDIA partition node. Wired to mandate_for_palestine_1922 (the League Mandate it dissolved) and israel (the state it enabled); held under decolonization_template. Apex untouched; structure never ethnicity. [Founding-layer harvest — Aug 16 2026; primaries re-sourced]
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