Resolution 181 and the Mirage of “Recognition”By Ricardo Mohrez Muvdi*On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly approved Resolution 181, known as the “Partition Plan for Palestine.” This document proposed dividing the historic Palestinian territory into two States: one Zionist and one Arab-Palestinian, leaving Jerusalem under international administration. Today, when Resolution 181 is once again invoked in international forums, we must ask what that “recognition” really means. For Palestinians, the mention of Resolution 181 is a reminder of what could have been but never was. Today, in the face of a genocide broadcast live, invoking Resolution 181 means bringing back to light the very root of the unresolved debt with Palestine: the inalienable right to self-determination and to a State of its own. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org by Makbula Nassar مقبولة نصار, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ПалестинцыTo recall Resolution 181 today is not diplomatic nostalgia; it is a demand for historical justice.