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UN General Assembly Resolution 181

The partition plan of 29 November 1947 for independent Arab and Jewish states and an international regime for Jerusalem.

6 links, 5 backed by primary records

How each side tells it

According to Israel

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Israeli Declaration of Independence According to Israel Primary record 1
1948 war According to United States government Primary record 2
The State Department history says the resolution "sparked conflict" in Palestine and that the Palestinian Arabs refused it.
1948 war According to United States government Primary record 2
1948 war According to Rashid Khalidi Scholarship & press 3
Khalidi: at the start of 1948 Arabs were over two-thirds of the population and owned nearly 90 percent of the privately owned land.

Timeline 2 dates

Proof 5 sources

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 14 May 1948. Primary record
ON THE STRENGTH OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
The Palestinian Arabs refused to recognize this arrangement, which they regarded as favorable to the Jews and unfair to the Arab population that would remain in Jewish territory under the partition.
The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure (chapter in The War for Palestine), Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Core), 2007. Scholarship & press
Arabs owned nearly 90 percent of Palestine's privately owned land
Partition of Palestine: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, 29 November 1947, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 29 Nov 1947. Primary record
Recommends to the United Kingdom, as the mandatory Power for Palestine, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and implementation, with regard to the future Government of Palestine, of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union
Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988 (UN doc. A/43/827, S/20278), Text as circulated at the United Nations, reproduced by the Marxists Internet Archive, 15 Nov 1988. Primary record
General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 1947, which partitioned Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish State

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