WATCH: If the Arabs had accepted the UN partition plan in 1947…

Crowds in Tel Aviv celebrate the UN's vote for partition in 1947. (Government Press Office, Jerusalem

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine as Resolution 181. The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem. However, the Arabs rejected it. Would things have been different if they had accepted it?

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