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The UN did, way back in 1948. It voted to split Palestine, which was then the name for the area overall, into two parts. One, which would include Jordan, would be the home for the Arabs in that area. The second would be the home for Jews, namely Israel. Israel immediately accepted that and declared itself a state (country). The US was the first country in the world to recognize Israel as a new country. But the Arabs, despite having many, many countries in the area, most very large, wouldn't tolerate Jews having even a tiny country within the Middle East, so Arab countries banded together and attacked the new Israel. There were huge numbers of refugees in both directions, with many hundreds of thousands of Jews being forced out of the Arab countries, and many hundreds of thousands of Arabs leaving the area that was now Israel. The Arabs say that the Israelis forced them out, and the Jews say that the Arab countries told them to leave until the war was over and Israel was destroyed. Those Arabs, who now call themselves Palestinians, went to Jordan but were thrown out after behaving poorly, and went to other Arab countries which also didn't accept them but kept them in refugee camps for Propaganda purposes. Most of the Jews were absorbed into Israel. Anyway, your question is a good one but was done 65 years ago. Israel is now a full fledged country, and the UN cannot simply send its citizens elsewhere, anymore than you'd tolerate them deciding that the US should be relocated to the Antarctic. I did my best to remove my personal views from this explanation, and to just answer your core question.

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