I*** Assistant Minister Hua Chunying** Palestine I to the United Nations Ambassador Riyad Mansour's speech, who will bear the suffering of the Palestinians, and is it possible to build their own country?
Resolution 181, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 29 November 1947, known as the Israeli-Palestinian Partition Resolution, divided Palestine into two states, the Jewish and the Arab, but the Arab countries did not accept this resolution and resolved to completely eliminate the newly established Israel by force.
The First Middle East War, also known as the Palestinian War, was dubbed the "War of Independence" by Israel because of the dissatisfaction and opposition of the Arab countries to the establishment of a Jewish state in the Palestinian areas.
On May 15, 1948, a coalition of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and other Arab countries launched an attack on Israel in an attempt to completely eliminate Israel, and the fierce fighting lasted for more than a year.
In March 1949, at the cost of nearly 6,000 casualties, the Israeli army reached an armistice agreement with neighboring Arab countries, demarcating the Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire line, separating Israel from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria and other Arab countries as a temporary border line.
On July 20, 1949, the First Middle East War officially ended, and the result of the war was the formal establishment of Israel.
The war changed the landscape of the Middle East and reshaped the political and military situation in the region.
In addition, the war has also increased tensions in the Middle East, making it one of the most unstable regions in the world.
First Middle East War: Started on 15 May 1948;
Second Middle East War: Started on 29 October 1956;
Third Middle East War: Started on June 5, 1967;
Fourth Middle East War: Started on 6 October 1973;
Fifth Middle East War: Started on 6 June 1982, Lebanese War;
Sixth Middle East War: Started on October 7, 2023.
In international affairs, it is often found that many countries do not have uniform standards for dealing with various issues, and this double standard is particularly evident in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Israel and Palestine have long been mired in a complex and contentious dispute, and if Palestine and Israel had negotiated peace to implement UN Resolution 181, there would not have been as much suffering as followed.
Looking back now on the implementation of UN Resolution 181, the possibility is long gone!