On this day 60 years ago....

On November 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly approved a proposal to partition Palestine into two states, one Arab and the other Jewish.

Strange, isn’t it, that sixty years later there is only one state.

(map: Truman Library)

Update: In this morning’s Washington Post: "1973 U.S. Cable on Mideast Mirrors Current Events": “A March 1973 State Department cable released yesterday by the National Archives recounts a promise by Saudi Arabia's King Faisal that terrorist threats to U.S. interests could be resolved as soon as Washington pressed Israel to withdraw from territory it had seized.”