enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mandate for Palestine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_for_Palestine

    This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. League of Nations – Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan Memorandum British Command Paper 1785, December 1922, containing the Mandate for Palestine and the Transjordan memorandum Whilst the Mandate for Palestine document covered both Mandatory Palestine (from 1920) and the Emirate of Transjordan ...

  3. International recognition of Israel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition...

    Israel's second application was rejected by the Security Council on 17 December 1948 by a 5-to-1 vote, with 5 abstentions. Syria was the sole negative vote; the United States, Argentina, Colombia, the Soviet Union, and the Ukrainian SSR voted in favour; and Belgium, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, and France abstained.

  4. United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition...

    The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II).

  5. Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine

    This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestine 1920–1948 Flag Public Seal Mandatory Palestine in 1946 Status Mandate of the United Kingdom Capital Jerusalem Common languages Arabic, English, Hebrew Religion (1922) 78% Islam 11% Judaism 10% Christianity 1% other including BaháΚΌí Faith, Druze faith Demonym(s) Palestinian High ...

  6. White Paper of 1939 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939

    In June 1922, the League of Nations approved the Palestine Mandate, effective September 1923, an explicit document on Britain's responsibilities and powers of administration in Palestine, including 'secur[ing] the establishment of the Jewish national home', and 'safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine'.

  7. History of the State of Palestine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_State_of...

    The vote was a historic benchmark for the recognition of the State of Palestine, whilst it was widely considered a diplomatic setback for Israel and the United States. Status as an observer state in the UN allows the State of Palestine to participate in general debate at the General Assembly, to co-sponsor resolutions, to join treaties and ...

  8. International recognition of the State of Palestine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition...

    The Marshall Islands has, like the US, long been a close voting ally of Israel at the United Nations. In December 2017, the Marshall Islands was one of just nine countries (including the US and Israel) to vote against a motion adopted by the UN General Assembly condemning the United States' recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital city. [290]

  9. Israel and the United Nations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_United_Nations

    Israel's deputy Foreign Minister, Daniel Ayalon, said that the "UN serves as a rubber stamp for the Arab countries and, as such, the General Assembly has an automatic majority," and that the vote "proved that the United States is the only country capable of advancing the peace process and the only righteous one speaking the truth: that direct ...