For anyone who knows a decent amount of history, who is to be held responsible for the 1947 UN partition plan?

Question

I say since Israel accepted a two state solution, and since the Arabs refused, the Arabs are held accountable for not having a "Palestine."

Answer 1

I don't know what individual proposed the partition plan, but it was a UN special committee. By 1947, the Brits had declared the situation unworkable, and handed their headache over to the UN. The Brits had already given 80% of Palestine to the Arabs, who called their country TransJordan.

Israel accepted the deal, the Arabs not only rejected the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine, they rejected the very notion of Jews in Palestine. After partition, the Arabs attacked Jews all over the region, and on the day Israel declared her independence, six Arab nations attacked Israel.

"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades." --Azzam Pasha
"I declare a holy war, my muslim brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all!" --Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, ally to Hitler

The rest, as they say, is history.

Answer 2

Why would Arabs agree to that partition. The population of Palestine at the time was 33% Jewish and 67% Arab. The partition gave 67% of the land to the people who only comprised 33% of the population. I do not want to see Israel destroyed or even repartitioned, what happened, happened and trying to undo it will only create more injustice. It should be recognized and acknowledged that the partition was unfair to Palestinian Arabs.

I am neither Islamic or Jewish, and I have read a fair amount of material about the ME. You can ask either side who will say the conflict stretches back as far as recorded history, that's pretty stupid if you ask me. Jews and Arabs lived next to each other and got along just fine during the Ottoman Empire.

As to blame, there's plenty to go around. The UK played both sides when they made an agreement (the McMahon Hussien correspondence (sp)) to get Arab assistance in WW I promised Arab control of all the lands of the Arabian Penninsula south of Haifa. They got the assistance, that's where we get the story of "Lawrence of Arabia". About the same time the Zionist movement petitioned for and got a White Paper issued by her magesty's government that stated "Her Magesty's government looks with favour on the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine." This lit the fuse.

The real injustice came with the UN partition. It was a convenient way to find a home for "displaced persons" after WWII. "Displaced persons" was a term used for Jewish refugees who had basically lost most of their families and all posessions during Hitler's genocide. Nobody wanted to open their country to these people. Giving them a homeland in Palestine was a way to resolve the issue by those with power and influence (the UK and the US) by imposing on those who had no power or influence (Palestinian Arabs). Prior to the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948, many acts of terrorism were commited by both sides

Answer 3

the Brits must surely take some blame for the plan, but the ethnic-cleanising carried out by the israelis in 1948 is the real reason there has never been a palestine.