November 29 is an opportunity to recall the reasons underlying the decision of the international community in 1947 to divide the country into two nation-states: a "Jewish State" and an "Arab State,"

The report said, among other things:

he basic conflict in Palestine is a clash of two intense nationalisms. Regardless of the historic origins of the conflict... there are now in Palestine some 650,000 Jews and some 1,200,000 Arabs who are dissimilar in their ways of living and, for the time being, separated by political interests. [...] Only by means of partition can these conflicting national aspirations find substantial expression and qualify both peoples to take their places as independent nations in the international community and in the United Nations. [...] Jewish immigration is the central issue in Palestine today and is the one factor, above all others, that rules out the necessary co-operation between the Arab and Jewish communities in a single State.