Israel statehood timeline: Truman Library
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UN Resolution 181, defined the outline of a settlement in Palestine creating both a Jewish and a Palestinian homeland. The 1947 UN Partition divided the area into three entities: a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone around Jerusalem.
A lot of this historical perspective and background gets lost in the rhetoric about Islamist fundamentalism and their desire to destroy Israel. We must not and cannot allow that to happen, and we should respect the rights of Palestinians to have a homeland since a basis for that does indeed exist -- nothwithstanding those here who think otherwise.