“The United States of America was proud to support Resolution 181. We were proud to be the first nation in the world to recognize Israel’s independence soon after. And we were proud to stand by Israel and the Jewish people ever since.”- V.P. Mike Pence
They sat in the same seats, in the same room, and heard the words praising Israel from the same podium from which the nation would be established 70 years ago.
“In this room they called for the creation of the Jewish State of Israel,” declared Vice President Mike Pence.
“I am deeply humbled to join you today to commemorate this vote and to celebrate the courage, the perseverance, and faith of the Jewish people that made it possible.”
The vice president, Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, ambassadors from 60 nations and the Israeli delegation gathered to commemorate the event in the room where the historic United Nations vote was held on November 29, 1947. Resolution 181 approved the partition of separate Arab and Jewish states, supervising the withdrawal of British forces from Palestine. The resolution passed by a vote of 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions and 1 nation absent.
The vice president used the commemoration to reaffirm the Trump’s administration strong support for the Jewish State.
“Under our administration, America will always stand with Israel,” he said to applause.
“Israel needed no resolution to exist, for Israel’s right to exist is self-evident and timeless. Nor did that resolution create the State of Israel. For Israel was born of the sweat and the sacrifice of the Jewish pioneers who risked everything to reclaim their beloved lands, with, in those well-remembered words, with a plow in one hand and a rifle in another. They turned the desert into a garden, scarcity into plenty, and an age-old dream into a reality. And their striving and their sacrifice laid the foundation for what took place in this hall 70 years ago.”
The site of the vote, in the New York City borough of Queens, temporarily housed the fledging United Nations General Assembly at the time. The building was originally constructed as the New York City Pavilion for the 1939 World’s Fair, and is now the home to the Queens Museum. But seven decades ago the imposing limestone edifice housed the newly created world body from 1946 to 1950.
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