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Three weeks after the Acco jail escape, the United
Nations began to debate the future of Palestine. The discussions lasted
several months. In November 1947, it was decided that Palestine should
be partitioned into two states: one Arab and one Jewish. Although the
plan envisioned a very small Jewish state which would exclude the entire
Western Galilee from Haifa northwards, the Jews accepted the plan. It
was, after all, something! And it provided Jews sovereignty in Israel
for the first time in two thousand years.
The Partition Plan was rejected and the result was the
War of Independence.
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