Talk:United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 | A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on November 29, 2005, November 29, 2006, November 29, 2007, November 29, 2008, November 29, 2010, November 29, 2014, November 29, 2015, November 29, 2017, and November 29, 2025. |
 | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.svg)
 | You are an administrator, so you may disregard the message below You are seeing this because of the limitations of {{If extended confirmed}} and {{If admin}}
You can hide this message box by adding the following to a new line of your common.css page: .ECR-edit-request-warning {
display: none;
}
Stop: You may only use this page to create an edit request This article is related to the Arab–Israeli conflict, which is subject to the extended-confirmed restriction. You are not an extended-confirmed user, so you must not edit or discuss this topic anywhere on Wikipedia except to make an edit request. (Additional details are in the message box just below this one.) |
| Warning: active arbitration remedies The contentious topics procedure applies to this article. This article relates to the Arab–Israeli conflict.The following restrictions apply to everyone editing this article:
Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. |
Edit request to reduce bias in framing 4 September 2025
 | This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Description of suggested change: Why are we specifying the private landholdings of the Jews (6-7%), but not showing what the Arab private ownership numbers were at the time? It makes this seem much more uneven than it was.
Diff:
| − | Zionists attributed Arab rejection of the plan to mere intransigence. Palestinian Arabs opposed the very idea of partition but reiterated that this partition plan was unfair: the majority of the land (56%) would go to a Jewish state, when Jews at that stage legally owned only 6–7% of it and remained a minority of the population (33% in 1946).[144][145][146][147][148][149][150][151][152] There were also disproportionate allocations under the plan and the area under Jewish control contained 45% of the Palestinian population. The proposed Arab state was only given 45% of the land, much of which was unfit for agriculture. Jaffa, though geographically separated, was to be part of the Arab state.[152] However, most of the proposed Jewish state was the Negev desert.[71][70] The Negev desert land was sparsely populated and unsuitable for agriculture but also a "vital land bridge protecting British interests from the Suez Canal to Iraq"[153][154] | + | Zionists attributed Arab rejection of the plan to mere intransigence. Palestinian Arabs opposed the very idea of partition but reiterated that this partition plan was unfair: the majority of the land (56%) would go to a Jewish state, when Jews at that stage legally owned only 6–7% of it and remained a minority of the population (33% in 1946).[144][145][146][147][148][149][150][151][152] There were also disproportionate allocations under the plan and the area under Jewish control contained 45% of the Palestinian population. The proposed Arab state was only given 45% of the land, much of which was unfit for agriculture. Jaffa, though geographically separated, was to be part of the Arab state.[152] However, most of the proposed Jewish state was the Negev desert.[71][70] The Negev desert land was sparsely populated and unsuitable for agriculture but also a "vital land bridge protecting British interests from the Suez Canal to Iraq"[153][154] |
JoshuaJosephson (talk) 01:58, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Day Creature (talk) 14:51, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 29 November 2025
| This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Change "U.N. Special Committee on Palestine" to "UN Special Committee on Palestine". Djamti (talk) 15:17, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
- Done. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 18:12, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
NPOV
"By the 1940s, Mandatory Palestine represented a fraction of the territory Zionists identified as the Jewish homeland,[8][9][10] parts of which had already been transferred to Egypt (1906), Jordan (1922), Syria (1920–1923) and Lebanon (1918–1926).[11] The 1947 Plan applied to what remained."
I suggest that including this in the lede is non-neutral. I'm moving it to the body. Ordinary Person (talk) 10:07, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
