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1947 U.N. votes for partition of Palestine
Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations votes for the
partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish
state.
The modern conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine dates
back to the 1910s, when both groups laid claim to the
British-controlled territory. The Jews were Zionists, recent
emigrants from Europe and Russia who came to the ancient homeland
of the Jews to establish a Jewish national state. The native
Palestinian Arabs sought to stem Jewish immigration and set up a
secular Palestinian state.
Beginning in 1929, Arabs and Jews openly fought in Palestine, and
Britain attempted to limit Jewish immigration as a means of
appeasing the Arabs. As a result of the Holocaust in Europe, many
Jews illegally entered Palestine during World War II. Radical
Jewish groups employed terrorism against British forces in
Palestine, which they thought had betrayed the Zionist cause. At
the end of World War II, in 1945, the United States took up the
Zionist cause. Britain, unable to find a practical solution,
referred the problem to the United Nations, which on November 29,
1947, voted to partition Palestine.
The Jews were to possess more than half of Palestine, though they
made up less than half of Palestine's population. The Palestinian
Arabs, aided by volunteers from other countries, fought the
Zionist forces, but the Jews secured full control of their
U.N.-allocated share of Palestine and also some Arab territory.
On May 14, 1948, Britain withdrew with the expiration of its
mandate, and the State of Israel was proclaimed by Jewish Agency
Chairman David Ben-Gurion. The next day, forces from Egypt,
Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded.
The Israelis, though less well equipped, managed to fight off the
Arabs and then seize key territories, such as Galilee, the
Palestinian coast, and a strip of territory connecting the
coastal region to the western section of Jerusalem. In 1949,
U.N.-brokered cease-fires left the State of Israel in permanent
control of those conquered areas. The departure of hundreds of
thousands of Palestinian Arabs from Israel during the war left
the country with a substantial Jewish majority.
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