Israel categorically rejected a United Nations committee resolution calling for Palestinian self-determination based on a U.N. resolution that calls for the division of Jerusalem. The United States was the only country on the human rights committee that opposed the decision involving Resolution 181, the 1947 Partition Plan. Israeli sources were quoted by the newspaper Ha’aretz as concerned that the decision, which did not refer to other U.N. resolutions that discuss territorial compromise or to the Oslo accords, implied that Israel could be reduced to less than the pre-Six-Day War borders.
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