Prior to the Nakba and the foundation of the State of Israel, the UN proposed a plan—in General Assembly Resolution 181—to divide British-ruled Palestine into separate “Arab” and “Jewish” states with an internationally administered “corpus separatum” covering the region around Jerusalem.[1] The partition, which was never enacted by the UN, would have left the proposed Jewish state controlling more than half of Mandate Palestine at a time when Jewish people comprised less than a third of the population and owned less than 6 percent of the land.[2]
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