Why did 1948 war happen?
Shows causes on the record, then each account's causes side by side.
Not a single settled cause.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Each account
A to Z, none ranked above another.
Named in 2 of the 2 accounts recorded here: UN General Assembly Resolution 181
According to Rashid Khalidi
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UN General Assembly Resolution 181
led to
Scholarship & press
1
Arabs owned nearly 90 percent of Palestine's privately owned land
Khalidi: at the start of 1948 Arabs were over two-thirds of the population and owned nearly 90 percent of the privately owned land.
According to United States government
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UN General Assembly Resolution 181
led to
Primary record
2
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 State Department history says the resolution "sparked conflict" in Palestine and that the Palestinian Arabs refused it.
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UN General Assembly Resolution 181
led to
Primary record
2
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.
Proof 2 sources
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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
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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.
How this answer is built
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