The Jewish population owned less than 6% of the land and comprised a third of the population but they were to be given more than half the country. The Arab delegates stormed out declaring the resolution invalid. But that was mostly bluster. We now know thanks to Avi Shlaim‘s ‘Collusion Across The Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine’ that the Hashemite monarchy in Transjordan had secretly negotiated a deal with the Zionists to divide Palestine between them.
The Zionists were ecstatic that the UN had voted for a Jewish state, yet they didn’t support the plan. Ben Gurion’s view was that the Jewish state’s borders "will be determined by force and not the partition resolution…there are no territorial boundaries for the future Jewish state." That was written on 7 October 1947, some 7 weeks before the UN vote. Israel to this day has not declared its borders.
~ Neil Rogall, "Making the Palestinians the scapegoats for Nazi crimes," rs21, October 9, 2014
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