Canadas Crucial Contribution to The Establishment of the State of Israel By Shai Razieli Few people know that. The UN resolution in 29 November 1947 to establish the State of Israel, has a lot of the right of Canada. A decisive role in drafting and passing the resolution in the two UN committees were established for this purpose, made by two Canadian personalities; Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Ivan Rand and Canadas Vice Secretary of State for External Affair, Lester B. Pearson (Later Prime Minister of Canada) The Supreme Court of Canada Justice Ivan Rand; Justice Rand became the central and most influential (He worked hard on the swing votes that was initially against) on the UN Committee UNSCOP in favor of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and the eventual creation of the State of Israel. And the second man from Canada, that had contributed greatly to the decision of the United Nations, was the UN Palestine Ad Hoc committee presiding, Canadas Vice Secretary of State for External Affair, Lester B. Pearson (Later the Prime Minister of Canada) In 1947 he was headed by Ad Hoc the second United Nations Special Committee on Palestine to formulated by the UN partition plan of The land of Israel. Supreme Court of Canada Rand, was the driving force behind the decision and without his major afforests the UN Committee Was not able to pass the resolution to a vote in the UN assembly. Find here below two important videos link from the same year; The Story of the vote in the UN and the speech of Abba Hillel Silver at the summary decisions by the two committees. Behind Silver seen sitting, future foreign minister of Israel Moshe (Sharet) Shertok. November 29, 1947: The Story of a Vote: https://youtube/watch?v=QrIjzUK0FKg&list=PLtNMl-MKaGfgU-9HBgO0dTkFXkC2kdOP0&feature=share&index=15 Day of Decision 29 November 1947: https://youtube/watch?v=kWWN2PaEzzM&feature=youtu.be
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 23:00:56 +0000
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