Egypt and Israel at Rhodes

There were three main reasons for the abandonment of the Bernadotte proposals in late 1948:

the determined opposition or not only Arabs and Israelis, but also the Soviet Union; ²

the impact of pro-Israeli campaign pledges during the American presidential election on the activities of the State Department and the US mission at the UN; ³ and

'drastic, irreversible' changes in the truce lines created by the Israeli army during the fall of 1948. ⁴

But, while not resulting in endorsement of the terms of the Bernadotte 'plan' as such, the Paris meetings of the Security Council and General Assembly in October, November and December of 1948 did produce two tracks for future United Nations efforts at Arab-Israeli peacemaking, ⁵