ABSTRACT
Between 13 September and 14 November 1951, the Palestine Conciliation Commission met in Paris for a series of 12 formal meetings, alternating between Israeli and Arab delegations. This episode would prove to be the last post-1948 effort by the United Nations at the conference style of Middle East diplomacy. Owing perhaps to a combination of its lack of results and the difficulty in obtaining primary source materials, the Paris Conference has merited little more than a passing mention in both traditional and revisionist studies to date. 1 Although the official UN records remain closed, in this and the following chapter we have been able to reconstruct the activities and calculations of the main actors based on a number of newly available sources. 2
