The United Nations approved a plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state in 1947, but the Arabs rejected it. In May 1948, Israel was officially declared an independent state with David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, as the prime minister.
On this day, 2018, Trump criticized Iran at the United Nations, despite the fact that during his presidency, no country was sanctioned as severely as Iran. He even played a role in the assassination of the commander leading the fight against ISIS, General Qasem Soleimani.
