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Arab League

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Questions concerning Palestine and United Nations action regarding its future governmental structure were the chief concern of the Arab League during the latter part of 1947.

Although members of the Arab League had earlier cooperated with the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, the presentation of the committee's report on September 3, 1947, brought forth a change of policy. On September 19, the League's political committee, meeting at Sófar, Lebanon, adopted a series of resolutions which denounced the UNSCOP report and threatened armed resistance if it was implemented. The committee not only inveighed against the majority recommendations, which called for a creation of independent Arab and Jewish states in Palestine, but also against the minority recommendation, which suggested a federal state with ‘parity’ between Arabs and Jews.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Regional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 1948 , pp. 141 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1948

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References

1 New York Times, September 20, 1947.

2 Ibid. For summary of the two plans presented by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, see this issue, p. 54.

3 New York Times, October 10, 1947.

4 Palestine Affairs, November, 1947.

5 Arab News Bulletin, September 27, 1947.

6 See document A/AC.14/32.

7 See document A/P.V. 128. For summary of General Assembly discussions on Palestine, see this issue p. 53–8.

8 New York Times, December 8, 1947.

9 Ibid., December 16, 1947.

10 Ibid., December 17, 1947.

11 Ibid., November 28 and December 9, 1947, January 15, 1948.

12 Arab News Bulletin, October 11, 1947.

13 New York Times, October 7, 1947.