In
the report “The Consequences of the Partition of Palestine” the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) warned against the adverse fallout
that would occur if the proposal to separate Palestine into two
territories, one primarily Jewish and the other Arab. The first
sentence in the summary is very specific and prophetic:
Armed
hostilities between Jews and Arabs will break out if the UN General
Assembly accepts the plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab
States as recommended by the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP).
Follow up:
The
final paragraph of the full report basically described the next 40 plus
years of history for the Cold War and the ongoing history that
continues to this day:
The
UN, having recommended partition, would have to consider the serious
threat to the peace resulting from the recommendation. It would, in
effect, be compelled to take steps to enforce partition, with the major
powers acting as the instruments of enforcement. The dangerous
potentialities of such a development to US – Arab and US – USSR
relations need no emphasis.
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