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     Belgium   
     Denmark   
     France   
     Iceland   
     Luxembourg   
     Netherlands   
     Norway   
     Sweden   
   Eastern European (5 countries):   
      
     Byelorussian SSR   
     Czechoslovakia   
     Poland   
     Ukrainian SSR   
     Soviet Union   
   African (2 countries):   
      
     Liberia   
     South Africa   
   Asia-Pacific (3 countries)   
      
     Australia   
     New Zealand   
     Philippines   
   North America (2 countries)   
      
     Canada   
     United States   
   Against (13 countries, 28% of total votes)   
   Asia-Pacific (9 countries, primarily Middle East sub-area):   
      
     Afghanistan   
     India   
     Iran   
     Iraq   
     Lebanon   
     Pakistan   
     Saudi Arabia   
     Syria   
     Yemen   
   Western European and Others (2 countries):   
      
     Greece   
     Turkey   
   African (1 country):   
      
     Egypt   
   Latin American and Caribbean (1 country):   
      
     Cuba   
   Abstentions (10 countries)   
   Latin American and Caribbean (6 countries):   
      
     Argentina   
     Chile   
     Colombia   
     El Salvador   
     Honduras   
     Mexico   
   Asia-Pacific (1 country):   
      
     China   
   African (1 country):   
      
     Ethiopia   
   Western European and Others (1 country):   
      
     United Kingdom   
   Eastern European (1 country):   
      
     Yugoslavia   
   Absent (1 country)   
   Asia-Pacific (1 country):   
      
     Thailand   
   Votes by modern region   
   If analysed by the modern composition of what later came to be known as   
   the United Nations Regional Groups showed relatively aligned voting   
   styles in the final vote. This, however, does not reflect the regional   
   grouping at the time, as a major reshuffle of regional grouping occurred   
   in 1966. All Western nations voted for the resolution, with the   
   exception of the United Kingdom (the Mandate holder), Greece and Turkey.   
   The Soviet bloc also voted for partition, with the exception of   
   Yugoslavia, which was to be expelled from Cominform the following year.   
   The majority of Latin American nations following Brazilian   
   leadership[citation needed], voted for partition, with a sizeable   
   minority abstaining. Asian countries (primarily Middle Eastern   
   countries) voted against partition, with the exception of the   
   Philippines.[100]   
      
   Regional Group    Members in UNGA181 vote    UNGA181 For    UNGA181   
   Against UNGA181 Abstained   
   African    4    2    1    1   
   Asia-Pacific    11    1    9    1   
   Eastern European    6    5    0    1   
   LatAm and Caribb.    20    13    1    6   
   Western Eur. & Others    15    12    2    1   
   Total UN members    56    33    13    10   
   Reactions   
   Jews   
   Most Jews in Palestine and around the world reacted to the UN resolution   
   with satisfaction, but some did not. Jews gathered in Tel Aviv and   
   Jerusalem to celebrate the U.N. resolution during the whole night after   
   the vote. Great bonfires blazed at Jewish collective farms in the north.   
   Many big cafes in Tel Aviv served free champagne.[7][101] Mainstream   
   Zionist leaders emphasized the "heavy responsibility" of building a   
   modern Jewish State, and committed to working towards a peaceful   
   coexistence with the region's other inhabitants:[102][103] Jewish groups   
   in the United States hailed the action by the United Nations. Most   
   welcomed the Palestine Plan but some felt it did not settle the   
   problem.[104]   
      
   Some Revisionist Zionists rejected the partition plan as a renunciation   
   of legitimately Jewish national territory.[104] The Irgun Tsvai Leumi,   
   led by Menachem Begin, and the Lehi (also known as the Stern Group or   
   Gang), the two Revisionist-affiliated underground organisations which   
   had been fighting against both the British and Arabs, stated their   
   opposition. Begin warned that the partition would not bring peace   
   because the Arabs would also attack the small state and that "in the war   
   ahead we'll have to stand on our own, it will be a war on our existence   
   and future."[105] He also stated that "the bisection of our homeland is   
   illegal. It will never be recognized."[106] Begin was sure that the   
   creation of a Jewish state would make territorial expansion possible,   
   "after the shedding of much blood."[107]   
      
   Some Post-Zionist scholars endorse Simha Flapan's view that it is a myth   
   that Zionists accepted the partition as a compromise by which the Jewish   
   community abandoned ambitions for the whole of Palestine and recognized   
   the rights of the Arab Palestinians to their own state. Rather, Flapan   
   argued, acceptance was only a tactical move that aimed to thwart the   
   creation of an Arab Palestinian state and, concomitantly, expand the   
   territory that had been assigned by the UN to the Jewish   
   state.[108][109][110][111][112] Baruch Kimmerling has said that Zionists   
   "officially accepted the partition plan, but invested all their efforts   
   towards improving its terms and maximally expanding their boundaries   
   while reducing the number of Arabs in them."[113]   
      
   Addressing the Central Committee of the Histadrut (the Eretz Israel   
   Workers Party) days after the UN vote to partition Palestine, Ben-Gurion   
   expressed his apprehension, stating:   
      
   the total population of the Jewish State at the time of its   
   establishment will be about one million, including almost 40% non-Jews.   
   Such a [population] composition does not provide a stable basis for a   
   Jewish State. This [demographic] fact must be viewed in all its clarity   
   and acuteness. With such a [population] composition, there cannot even   
   be absolute certainty that control will remain in the hands of the   
   Jewish majority... There can be no stable and strong Jewish state so   
   long as it has a Jewish majority of only 60%.[114]   
      
   Ben-Gurion said "I know of no greater achievement by the Jewish people   
   ... in its long history since it became a people."[115]   
      
   Arabs   
   Arab leaders and governments rejected the plan of partition in the   
   resolution and indicated that they would reject any other plan of   
   partition.[9] The Arab states' delegations declared immediately after   
   the vote for partition that they would not be bound by the decision, and   
   walked out accompanied by the Indian and Pakistani delegates.[116]   
      
   They argued that it violated the principles of national   
   self-determination in the UN charter which granted people the right to   
   decide their own destiny.[5][11] The Arab delegations to the UN issued a   
   joint statement the day after that vote that stated: "the vote in regard   
   to the Partition of Palestine has been given under great pressure and   
   duress, and that this makes it doubly invalid."[117]   
      
   On 16 February 1948, the UN Palestine Commission reported to the   
   Security Council that: "Powerful Arab interests, both inside and outside   
   Palestine, are defying the resolution of the General Assembly and are   
   engaged in a deliberate effort to alter by force the settlement   
   envisaged therein."[118]   
      
   Arab states   
   A few weeks after UNSCOP released its report, Azzam Pasha, the General   
   Secretary of the Arab League, told an Egyptian newspaper "Personally I   
   hope the Jews do not force us into this war because it will be a war of   
   elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will   
   record similarly to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the   
   Crusades."[119] (This statement from October 1947 has often been   
   incorrectly reported as having been made much later on 15 May   
   1948.)[120] Azzam told Alec Kirkbride "We will sweep them [the Jews]   
   into the sea." Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli told his people: "We   
   shall eradicate Zionism."[121]   
      
   King Farouk of Egypt told the American ambassador to Egypt that in the   
   long run the Arabs would soundly defeat the Jews and drive them out of   
   Palestine.[122]   
      
   While Azzam Pasha repeated his threats of forceful prevention of   
   partition, the first important Arab voice to support partition was the   
   influential Egyptian daily Al Mokattam [d]: "We stand for partition   
      
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