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Yelof · 06-20-2002, 08:20 AM

1947 plan may seem fair in todays terms but in terms of 1947 it was not. 55% of the land given to 30% of it's inhabitants, many of whom were recent immigrants.

The following link although from a clearly biased site, does present a good overview of why the 1947 RECOMMENDATIONS were rejected.

http://www.iap.org/partition.htm

06-20-2002, 08:20 AM	#31
Yelof neither here nor there Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 179	1947 plan may seem fair in todays terms but in terms of 1947 it was not. 55% of the land given to 30% of it's inhabitants, many of whom were recent immigrants. The following link although from a clearly biased site, does present a good overview of why the 1947 RECOMMENDATIONS were rejected. http://www.iap.org/partition.htm Last edited by Yelof; 06-20-2002 at 09:01 AM.