The positions in support of the partition plan

In this essay we present the primary arguments for the UNSCOP majority decision in favor of the partition plan, as well as the rationales of those who supported partition at the time of the discussions about it in the UN General Assembly. Alexander Yakobson reviews the arguments regarding the ambitions and rights of the two peoples in the country for independence, regarding the historical connection between the Jewish people and the land, and regarding the international commitments given to the Jewish people. Yakobson points out that the importance of the report was principally that it recognized the Jews, even if not always explicitly, as a nation entitled to self-determination. The main justification in support of the partition proposal, on which the speaker dwells, is the set of realities which the partition proposal sought to address in 1947. This attempt can be divided into two fronts: one, Mandatory Palestine, which was inhabited by two peoples with conflicting political ambitions; the other, the countries of Europe in which the Jewish refugees after the Second World War sought their way.