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UNGAR 181 was never binding. In order for a UN General Assembly resolution to be binding, all parties relevant to that resolutions must agree to abide by it. The Arab High Committee for Palestine, along with all the Arab countries that had voted against partition refuses to accept UNGAR 181. Therefore, it was never ratified, so it never became binding.
Under any circumstances, since the Arab High Committee for Palestine rejected UNGAR 181 in 1947, there is no way that its convoluted successor, the PLO, could accept it forty-one years later. How long can a contract offer be valid before it expires? Certainly not 41 years.
When the PLO “accepted” UNGAR 181 (and, supposedly, UNSCR 242) in 1988, they did so out of the political necessity of having become irrelevant to the Arab-Israel conflict since their defeat in Beirut and evacuation to Tunis, where they were bound by the Tunisian government to refrain from organizing, planning or executing terror operations on Tunisian soil.
Under any circumstances, since the Arab High Committee for Palestine rejected UNGAR 181 in 1947, there is no way that its convoluted successor, the PLO, could accept it forty-one years later. How long can a contract offer be valid before it expires? Certainly not 41 years.
When the PLO “accepted” UNGAR 181 (and, supposedly, UNSCR 242) in 1988, they did so out of the political necessity of having become irrelevant to the Arab-Israel conflict since their defeat in Beirut and evacuation to Tunis, where they were bound by the Tunisian government to refrain from organizing, planning or executing terror operations on Tunisian soil.