Archive Report
Archive Report
Palestine Problem and Joint Police Action
Instruments for Enforcing Palestine Settlement
Partition of Palestine may confront the United Nations, for the first time, with the necessity of employing force to carry out a decision of the world organization. The plan for division of the Holy Land into independent Jewish and Arab states contemplates formation of native armed militia to maintain order in the transitional period while the British are withdrawing and before attainment of full independence. However, in the light of bitter Arab hostility to partition, there is grave doubt that warfare between Jews and Arabs can be prevented and the settlement enforced without outside military intervention.1
If open defiance of the authority of the United Nations does in fact develop in Palestine, the Security Council will ...