The UN Did Not Create Israel ? No—absolutely not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVX2CzJVC4

May 18, 2025

Did the UN create Israel? No—absolutely not. This video debunks the myths surrounding UN Resolution 181 and exposes the legal, political, and historical facts behind the creation of Israel. NB: I do not moderate comments, so if your comment was deleted I assume it was Youtube. If you see a comment that is clearly anti-Semitic or Islamophobic report it and Youtube will deal with it. CORRECTION in a chart at 1:45 it classifies Jewish owned land as mostly Mulk (privately deeded) that is not correct the rural agricultural land Jewish Organization bought would have been Miri land. Sources and Quotes: UN Resolution 181 (II), November 29, 1947 "The resolution neither creates a Jewish State nor establishes an Arab State." — UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a... Trygve Lie, In the Cause of Peace (1954), p. 165 "The United Nations... had no power to establish a state." https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223... Survey of Palestine, British Government (1945), Vol. I, p. 257; Vol. II, pp. 566–578 "Only about 5.7% of the land in Palestine was Jewish-owned in 1945." https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/b... Peel Commission Report (1937), Cmd. 5479 "The Arab population has grown rapidly, but this growth is due to the high birth-rate and to the decrease in the death-rate." https://unispal.un.org/pdfs/Cmd5479.pdf Zachary Lockman, Comrades and Enemies (2001), pp. 234–238 "By the mid-1930s... Arab labor had largely been displaced from Jewish enterprises due to the enforcement of Hebrew labor policies." https://www.ucpress.edu/books/comrade... Sami Hadawi, Land Ownership in Palestine 1880–1948, p. 265 "Jews legally owned only about 6–7% of the land by 1948." https://books.google.com/books/about/... Salman Abu-Sitta, The Atlas of Palestine 1917–1966, p. 80 "Arabs owned or used more than 90% of the land in Mandatory Palestine in 1948." https://www.scribd.com/document/47664... Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete (2000), p. 403 "The UN recommendation for partition had no legal force. It was only that—a recommendation." https://www.amazon.com/One-Palestine-... Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), p. 34 "The UN provided no legal basis for statehood—it was David Ben-Gurion who acted unilaterally." https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansi... Sources on Miri Land and Ottoman Land Laws: Kenneth W. Stein, The Land Question in Palestine, 1917–1939 (1984), pp. 11–19, 48–53 “Miri lands were state-owned in name, but peasants held the right of use (tassaruf) which was heritable, transferable, and mortgageable.” https://uncpress.org/book/97808078417... Martin Bunton, Colonial Land Policies in Palestine 1917–1936 (2007), pp. 21–24 “The Miri classification did not imply practical state control. Villagers considered it their land—and the law recognized their long-term cultivation rights.” https://www.amazon.com/Colonial-Pales... “The cultivator of Miri land is practically the owner. He can sell, bequeath, and mortgage his rights. These lands are not state lands in the usual sense.” British Survey of Palestine, 1945, Vol. II, p. 566 “Approximately 70% of all land in Palestine was classified as Miri, forming the basis of rural Arab land tenure.” https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/b... Geremy Forman and Alexandre Kedar, “From Arab Land to ‘Israel Lands’,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 22, 2004, p. 809 “Miri land in the Ottoman system offered villagers robust and long-standing rights... The Zionist movement understood this and acquired such lands through purchase.” https://doi.org/10.1068/d402 (access via academic library or purchase)