/Welcome I To Palestine The Campus Consensus Jewish and Palestinian students at the University of Michigan favor formal statehood. consume Israel," said Roth, a 20 year- old business administration major Special to The Jewish News from Cincinnati. Roth added that she thinks the Ann Arbor Israelis really want peace, more than ewish student leaders at the anything else, and yet all I've heard University of Michigan say from the Palestinians is they want a they don't particularly fear this state." Roth said it appears to her that year's expected declaration of the two sides "don't have a common a Palestinian state and think, in fact, it goal,"indicating that problems remain might help Israel. in forging a sturdy peace. Likewise, Palestinian student leaders Roth and Tigay co-chair the Israel welcome independence, but doubt it'll Michigan Public Affairs Committee automatically solve the fledgling state's (IMPAC), the other major Jewish stu- pressing economic woes. In fact, they see dent political group on campus. the issue of upgrading the Palestinians' Tigay said she thinks it will take a economic conditions as having a higher lot of time to get a [Palestinian] gov- priority now than independence. ernment up and running, and to get "If the Palestinian Authority is an adequate infrastructure in place. declared (a state) and living conditions The senior from West Bloomfield don't change, and people don't see any views Palestinian independence as difference, there's no point," said healthy and hopes it will lead to Bisan Salhi, a 20-year-old leader of the greater economic cooperation between Arab American Anti-Discrimination the new nation and Israel. Committee (ADC). "Even if there is a cold peace — For their part, Jewish students said one based on security concerns alone having a Palestinian state could — it's welcome, said Ti gay. advance the peace in the Mideast. Palestinian student leaders at U-M "I think it should happen," said Scott feel much the same way as the Jewish Eisenberg, a 21-year-old University of students when it comes to the impor- Michigan senior, who co-founded and tance of economic cooperation. The helps lead a student group called Palestinian students say it's vital for a American Movement for Israel (AMI). permanent peace. Some say they don't "If it can happen in such a way that it put as much stock in formal statehood can improve the lives of the Palestinians, right now. and also improve the . security of Israel ... "There'll be wild celebration ..." under those theoretical consequences, I then the Palestinians will "end up with believe it should happen." worse than a developing nation,"said Jewish student leaders Donielle Will Youmans, a 20-year-old pre-law Tigay and Lani Roth share Eisenberg's student from Grosse Ile and co-leader • hopes. "I think it's actually a good of ADC. 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Resolution 181, adopted Nov. 29, 1947, divided mandatory Palestine into an Arab state, a Jewish state and an interna- tional zone that included Jerusalem and Bethlehem. The 1947 borders would have allotted nearly 60 percent of the ter- ritory to the Jewish state — more than half of which was the Negev Desert — and 40 percent to the Arab state, including the entire contempo- rary West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the northern towns of Acre and Nahariya. Israel accepted the plan and then declared independence in May 1948. The Arab League forcefully rejected it, precipitating the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The cease-fire lines after the war pretty much served as Israel's borders until the Six Day War of 1967, when the Jewish state gained control of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and Sinai Desert.