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    The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was created on 15 May 1947 in response to a United Kingdom government request that the General...
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    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...
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    Martinus Nijhoff. 1997. p. 48. ISBN 978-90-411-0338-3. UNSCOP 1947, p. II, Art. 142. UNSCOP 1947, p. II, Art. 145. Stein 1961, p. 470. Friedman 1973...
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    publication of the report of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, which contained majority and minority proposals. The...
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    on 14 February 1947. The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was created on 15 May 1947, reported on 3 September 1947 and on 29 November...
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    transmitted from the YMCA auditorium. In 1947, the YMCA was the venue of the UNSCOP talks leading up to the UN Partition Plan. At the end of April 1948 the...
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    land granted to the proposed Jewish state was highly skewed in its favour. UNSCOP reported that under its majority plan "[t]he Jews will have the more economically...
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    privately met UNSCOP members to argue for a unitary Arab-majority state, among them AHC member and former Jerusalem mayor Husayn al-Khalidi. UNSCOP also received...
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    for help. On 15 May 1947, the General Assembly appointed a committee, the UNSCOP, composed of representatives from eleven states. To make the committee more...
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    Nations. The UN created UNSCOP (the UN Special Committee on Palestine) on 15 May 1947, with representatives from 11 countries. UNSCOP conducted hearings and...
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  • Mandatory Palestine in 1947 and became a supporter of partition supporting UNSCOP's majority report which led to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine...
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    and leave Palestine. The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was also influenced by this and other actions. At the same time another...
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    Palestine (3 September 1947). "Recommendations to the General Assembly, A/364". UNSCOP. Retrieved 14 October 2006. Chatty, Dawn; Hundt, Gillian Lewando (2005)...
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    Retrieved 24 August 2015 – via babel.hathitrust.org. Testimony of Grauel before UNSCOP John Stanley Grauel papers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...
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    was one of the 11 members that formed the Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) charged to investigate the cause of the conflict in Palestine Mandate,...
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  • Palestine. He had previously served as Senior Economic Advisor both to UNSCOP and the Palestine Commission. Reedman was a professor of economics at Witwatersrand...
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    Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), to report on "the question of Palestine". In July 1947 the UNSCOP visited Palestine and met with Jewish...
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    transmitted from the YMCA auditorium. In 1947, the YMCA was the venue of the UNSCOP talks leading up to the UN Partition Plan. At the end of April 1948, the...
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    The agreement was first disclosed to the public in 1936. It was noted by UNSCOP that "To many observers at the time, conclusion of the Feisal-Weizmann agreement...
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    United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in the summer of 1947. Prior to joining UNSCOP, Rahman began practicing law in Delhi in 1908. He...
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  • population in Palestine. In July 1947, eager to maintain order with the visit of UNSCOP to Palestine and under heavy pressure from the British authorities to resume...
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    Runnymede Park. Members of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) witnessed the transfer. The three ships left Haifa on July 19 for Port-de-Bouc...
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    Nations for resolution. The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was created, and in September, submitted a report to the UN General Assembly...
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    APPENDIX III.(I), p.27; also here Archived 2014-06-03 at the Wayback Machine UNSCOP, 3 September 1947 (doc.nr. A/364 Add. 1) The King-Crane Commission Report...
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    was the chairman of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in 1947, and the chairman of the International Federation of Red Cross...
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    These attacks resulted in even tighter security precautions.[page needed] UNSCOP (the United Nations committee which was asked to recommend the future government...
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    flood, 1948 In 1947, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) proposed that Beersheba be included within the Jewish state in their partition...
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    UN 1947–1949, Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-78988-3. Ben-Dror, Elad (2023). UNSCOP and the Arab–Israeli conflict: the road to partition, Routledge. ISBN 978-1-03-205963-1...
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  • population had risen to 1,900,000, of whom 68% were Arabs, and 32% were Jews (UNSCOP report, including Bedouin). Report and general abstract of the Jewish agriculture...
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    Mumbai, India, with 625 people killed. July 18 Following wide media and UNSCOP coverage, the Exodus is captured by British troops, and refused entry into...
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