Jeffrey Goldberg Archives – Jewish Currents

Palestine at the UN: Has Diplomacy Come Full Circle?

January 30, 2015 Ron Skolnik

Might the U.S. Permit United Nations Action? by Ron Skolnik NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS AGO, the leader of a small stateless people turned to the United Nations to plead their case. Addressing the members of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in July 1947 at the iconic YMCA building in Jerusalem, Jewish Agency chairman […]