THE TRUTH ABOUT ISRAEL/PALESTINE CONFLICT ACCORDING TO THE STANFORD DAILY
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Quotes from the above link,
"Historical sources state that in 1947, Palestine was populated with approximately 1.2 million Arabs and 600,000 Jews. Despite this population ratio of 2:1, and despite the fact that the distribution of land ownership was 92 percent to 94 percent Palestinian Arab and 6 percent to 8 percent Jewish, the U.N. partition plan called for a Jewish state on 56 percent of historic Palestine and a Palestinian Arab state on 44 percent. According to the U.N. partition plan, therefore, a significant amount of Arab-owned land was to be designated as part of the Jewish state. As such, it is hardly surprising that Palestinian Arabs at the time rejected the loss of significant chunks of their homeland.
"Thus, rising out of this context, a civil war was waged between Jews and Palestinian Arabs from November 1947 until May 1948. After the State of Israel was unilaterally declared on May 15, 1948, a regional war ensued between the newly established state and the Arab armies of Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq."