N. that it was unable to implement the 1947 resolution because: Powerful interests both in and outside Palestine are defying the resolution of the General Assembly and are engaged in a deliberate effort to alter by force the settlement envisaged therein. Armed Arab bands from neighboring Arab states. together with local Arab forces. are defeating the purposes of the resolution by acts of violence. Israels proclamation of independence on May 14. 1948. pledged: 1. "The State of Israel will be open to the immigration of Jews from all the countries of their dispersion. will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants. will be based on the principles of liberty. justice. and peace. as conceived by the prophets of Israel. will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens. without distinction of religion. race or sex. will guarantee freedom of religion. conscience. education. and culture. will safeguard the holy places of all religions. and will loyally uphold the principles of the United Nations Charter." 2. The proclamation calls "upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the state on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its bodies and institutionsprovisional and permanent." 3. The proclamation extends its "hand in peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples" and invites them "to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all." Israel was attended at birth by war. boycott and the struggle of the great powers of the world for dominance in the Middle East.
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