Revisiting resolution 181 about the partition plan for Palestine: was it a failure of international law?

Abstract EN

This paper seeks to revisit the decision of the partition plan of Palestine, it restudies resolution 181 by going back especially to the works of the united nations special committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) which prepared several reports studying the history and circumstances of the conflict and the several solutions that were proposed by the different acting parties.

the paper tries to identify the arguments that were laid out by the committee in the reports whether they are legal, political or even biblical in order assess the final outcome and be able to judge if such a plan could be considered as a failure of international law or not.