Title: The Struggle for a Jewish State
Author: Walter Laqueur
URL: http://pij.org/details.php?id=927
Abstract:
This is an extract from Part III of the book ‘A History of Zionism,’ by Walter Laqueur, a distinguished historian and director of the Institute for Contemporary History in London. It discusses the efforts by the international community to establish an independent state of Israel following the World War II. The United Nations General Assembly had established on May 15, 1947, an eleven member committee, known as the ‘United Nations Special Committee on Palestine,’ to investigate into the Palestinian question, make proposals for a settlement and to report back by September 1947. This article presents an account of the period which started with the proposals at the United Nations on May 15, 1947 and ended with the and the final creation and legitimization of Israel with the declaration of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948.
