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   because we believe that it is the best final solution for the problem of   
   Palestine... rejection of partition... will lead to further   
   complications and will give the Zionists another space of time to   
   complete their plans of defense and attack... a delay of one more year   
   which would not benefit the Arabs but would benefit the Jews, especially   
   after the British evacuation."[123]   
      
   On 20 May 1948, Azzam told reporters "We are fighting for an Arab   
   Palestine. Whatever the outcome the Arabs will stick to their offer of   
   equal citizenship for Jews in Arab Palestine and let them be as Jewish   
   as they like. In areas where they predominate they will have complete   
   autonomy."[124]   
      
   The Arab League said that some of the Jews would have to be expelled   
   from a Palestinian Arab state.[125]   
      
   Abdullah appointed Ibrahim Hashem Pasha as Military Governor of the Arab   
   areas occupied by troops of the Transjordan Army. He was a former prime   
   minister of Transjordan who supported partition of Palestine as proposed   
   by the Peel Commission and the United Nations.[126]   
      
   Arabs in Palestine   
   Haj Amin al-Husseini said in March 1948 to an interviewer from the Jaffa   
   daily Al Sarih that the Arabs did not intend merely to prevent partition   
   but "would continue fighting until the Zionists were annihilated."[121]   
      
   Zionists attributed Arab rejection of the plan to mere intransigence.   
   Palestinian Arabs opposed the very idea of partition but reiterated that   
   this partition plan was unfair: the majority of the land (56%) would go   
   to a Jewish state, when Jews at that stage legally owned only 6–7% of it   
   and remained a minority of the population (33% in   
   1946).[127][128][129][130][131][132][133][134][135] There were also   
   disproportionate allocations under the plan and the area under Jewish   
   control contained 45% of the Palestinian population. The proposed Arab   
   state was only given 45% of the land, much of which was unfit for   
   agriculture. Jaffa, though geographically separated, was to be part of   
   the Arab state.[135] However, most of the proposed Jewish state was the   
   Negev desert.[56][55] The plan allocated to the Jewish State most of the   
   Negev desert that was sparsely populated and unsuitable for agriculture   
   but also a "vital land bridge protecting British interests from the Suez   
   Canal to Iraq"[136][137]   
      
   Few Palestinian Arabs joined the Arab Liberation Army because they   
   suspected that the other Arab States did not plan on an independent   
   Palestinian state. According to Ian Bickerton, for that reason many of   
   them favored partition and indicated a willingness to live alongside a   
   Jewish state.[138] He also mentions that the Nashashibi family backed   
   King Abdullah and union with Transjordan.[139]   
      
   The Arab Higher Committee demanded that in a Palestinian Arab state, the   
   majority of the Jews should not be citizens (those who had not lived in   
   Palestine before the British Mandate).[93]   
      
   According to Musa Alami, the mufti would agree to partition if he were   
   promised that he would rule the future Arab state.[140]   
      
   The Arab Higher Committee responded to the partition resolution and   
   declared a three-day general strike in Palestine to begin the following   
   day.[141]   
      
   British government   
   When Bevin received the partition proposal, he promptly ordered for it   
   not to be imposed on the Arabs.[142][143] The plan was vigorously   
   debated in the British parliament.   
      
   In a British cabinet meeting at 4 December 1947, it was decided that the   
   Mandate would end at midnight 14 May 1948, the complete withdrawal by 1   
   August 1948, and Britain would not enforce the UN partition plan.[144]   
   On 11 December 1947, the British government publicly announced these   
   plans.[145] During the period in which the British withdrawal was   
   completed, Britain refused to share the administration of Palestine with   
   a proposed UN transition regime, to allow the UN Palestine Commission to   
   establish a presence in Palestine earlier than a fortnight before the   
   end of the Mandate, to allow the creation of official Jewish and Arab   
   militias or to assist in smoothly handing over territory or authority to   
   any successor.[146][147]   
      
   United States government   
   The United States declined to recognize the All-Palestine government in   
   Gaza by explaining that it had accepted the UN Mediator's proposal. The   
   Mediator had recommended that Palestine, as defined in the original   
   Mandate including Transjordan, might form a union.[148] Bernadotte's   
   diary said the Mufti had lost credibility on account of his unrealistic   
   predictions regarding the defeat of the Jewish militias. Bernadotte   
   noted "It would seem as though in existing circumstances most of the   
   Palestinian Arabs would be quite content to be incorporated in   
   Transjordan."[149]   
      
   Subsequent events   
   The Partition Plan with Economic Union was not realized in the days   
   following 29 November 1947 resolution as envisaged by the General   
   Assembly.[17] It was followed by outbreaks of violence in Mandatory   
   Palestine between Palestinian Jews and Arabs known as the 1947–48 Civil   
   War.[16] After Alan Cunningham, the High Commissioner of Palestine, left   
   Jerusalem, on the morning of 14 May the British army left the city as   
   well. The British left a power vacuum in Jerusalem and made no measures   
   to establish the international regime in Jerusalem.[150] At midnight on   
   14 May 1948, the British Mandate expired,[151] and Britain disengaged   
   its forces. Earlier in the evening, the Jewish People's Council had   
   gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum (today known as Independence Hall), and   
   approved a proclamation, declaring "the establishment of a Jewish state   
   in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel".[5][152] The 1948   
   Arab–Israeli War began with the invasion of, or intervention in,   
   Palestine by the Arab States on 15 May 1948.[153]   
      
   Resolution 181 as a legal basis for Palestinian statehood   
   In 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organization published the Palestinian   
   Declaration of Independence relying on Resolution 181, arguing that the   
   resolution continues to provide international legitimacy for the right   
   of the Palestinian people to sovereignty and national independence.[154]   
   A number of scholars have written in support of this view.[155][156][157]   
      
   A General Assembly request for an advisory opinion, Resolution ES-10/14   
   (2004), specifically cited resolution 181(II) as a "relevant   
   resolution", and asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) what are   
   the legal consequences of the relevant Security Council and General   
   Assembly resolutions. Judge Abdul Koroma explained the majority opinion:   
   "The Court has also held that the right of self-determination as an   
   established and recognized right under international law applies to the   
   territory and to the Palestinian people. Accordingly, the exercise of   
   such right entitles the Palestinian people to a State of their own as   
   originally envisaged in resolution 181 (II) and subsequently   
   confirmed."[158] In response, Prof. Paul De Waart said that the Court   
   put the legality of the 1922 League of Nations Palestine Mandate and the   
   1947 UN Plan of Partition beyond doubt once and for all.[159]   
      
   Retrospect   
   In 2011, Mahmoud Abbas stated that the 1947 Arab rejection of United   
   Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a mistake he hoped to rectify.[160]   
      
   Commemoration   
      
   Monument commemorating 1947 UN Partition Plan, Netanya   
   A street in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem is named Kaf-tet   
   benovember (29th of November Street). On November 29, 2022, a monument   
      
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