<P> In 1947 , the United Nations created the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP ) to find an immediate solution to the Palestine question , which the British had handed over to the UN . The report indicated that the Arab state would be forced to call for financial assistance `` from international institutions in the way of loans for expansion of education , public health and other vital social services of a non-self - supporting nature . '' A technical note from the Secretariat explained that without some redistribution of customs from the Jewish state , Arab Palestine would not be economically viable . The Committee was satisfied that the proposed Jewish State and the City of Jerusalem would be viable . The majority of the members of UNSCOP proposed certain recommendations for the UN General Assembly which on 29 November 1947 adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Partition Plan , based substantially on those proposals as Resolution 181 ( II ) . PART I : Future constitution and government of Palestine : A. Clause 3 . provided as follows : - Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem , set forth in part III of this plan , shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948 . The resolution noted Britain 's planned termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and recommended the partition of Palestine into two states , one Arab and one Jewish , with the Jerusalem - Bethlehem area being under special international protection , administered by the United Nations . The resolution included a highly detailed description of the recommended boundaries for each proposed state . The resolution also contained a plan for an economic union between the proposed states , and a plan for the protection of religious and minority rights . The resolution sought to address the conflicting objectives and claims to the Mandate territory of two competing nationalist movements , Zionism ( Jewish nationalism ) and Arab nationalism , as well as to resolve the plight of Jews displaced as a result of the Holocaust . The resolution called for the withdrawal of British forces and termination of the Mandate by 1 August 1948 , and establishment of the new independent states by 1 October 1948 . </P>
<P> In 1947 , the United Nations created the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP ) to find an immediate solution to the Palestine question , which the British had handed over to the UN . The report indicated that the Arab state would be forced to call for financial assistance `` from international institutions in the way of loans for expansion of education , public health and other vital social services of a non-self - supporting nature . '' A technical note from the Secretariat explained that without some redistribution of customs from the Jewish state , Arab Palestine would not be economically viable . The Committee was satisfied that the proposed Jewish State and the City of Jerusalem would be viable . The majority of the members of UNSCOP proposed certain recommendations for the UN General Assembly which on 29 November 1947 adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Partition Plan , based substantially on those proposals as Resolution 181 ( II ) . PART I : Future constitution and government of Palestine : A. Clause 3 . provided as follows : - Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem , set forth in part III of this plan , shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948 . The resolution noted Britain 's planned termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and recommended the partition of Palestine into two states , one Arab and one Jewish , with the Jerusalem - Bethlehem area being under special international protection , administered by the United Nations . The resolution included a highly detailed description of the recommended boundaries for each proposed state . The resolution also contained a plan for an economic union between the proposed states , and a plan for the protection of religious and minority rights . The resolution sought to address the conflicting objectives and claims to the Mandate territory of two competing nationalist movements , Zionism ( Jewish nationalism ) and Arab nationalism , as well as to resolve the plight of Jews displaced as a result of the Holocaust . The resolution called for the withdrawal of British forces and termination of the Mandate by 1 August 1948 , and establishment of the new independent states by 1 October 1948 . </P>
who made palestine into 2 states in 1948
who made palestine into 2 states in 1948
United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP )
United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP )