{"id":185250,"date":"2025-10-02T14:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185250\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:43:07","slug":"the-australian-who-was-key-to-the-creation-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185250\/","title":{"rendered":"The Australian who was key to the creation of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IN 1947, Herbert Vere &#8220;Doc&#8221; Evatt was Australia&#8217;s external affairs minister and the appointed chair of the United Nation&#8217;s Ad-Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question, which was tasked with devising a plan for Palestine in the wake of World War II, as Britain planned to relinquish its mandate over the area. According to Jewish-Australian historian Dr Suzanne Rutland, Evatt&#8217;s manoeuvrers at the UN were instrumental in securing the narrow two-thirds majority support required for the partition of Palestine and the creation of a Jewish state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Dr Suzanne Rutland, Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney, Department of Hebrew, Biblical &amp; Jewish StudiesProducer: Rebecca Metcalf, Jack Schmidt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IN 1947, Herbert Vere &#8220;Doc&#8221; Evatt was Australia&#8217;s external affairs minister and the appointed chair of the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,118407,6898,6897,118408,44,6899,112158,6902,40632],"class_list":["post-185250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-evatt","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-partition","tag-united-nations","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}