Event at the Parliament of Australia on 29 November 2022 to mark 75 years since Australia and H V “Doc” Evatt voted in favour of partition and the creation of the State of Israel at the General Assembly of the United Nations. Robert Magid OAM, Hon. Richard Marles MHR, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Ruth…
On November 29, 1947 the United Nations General Assembly voted, by 33 votes to 13, with 10 countries abstaining and one absent, to approve a plan to partition the territory known as Mandatory Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. One of the leading architects of the plan was Australia’s Dr H V…
Seventy-five years ago this week, the United Nations General Assembly voted by 33 votes in favour, 13 against and with 10 abstentions, to partition the land between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River into two states, Jewish and Arab. We know the history of what happened next; the State of Israel was subsequently declared in…