The Partition Plan

Today is the anniversary of the Partition Plan for Palestine, which was proposed by the UN after Transjordan had already been allocated to the Arabs. It gave a slightly larger area to the Jews, in anticipation of the millions of refugees from Europe, but most of that land was deserts and swamps.

Jews celebrated, even though it was much less than they hoped for and would be difficult to defend, and formally accepted partition.

Arabs mostly rejected any form of partition; the General Secretary of th...