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The UN Partition Plan tried to divide the country according to demographic
concentrations, but the Palestinian and Jewish populations were so intertwined that that
became impossible.
Although the Jews comprised only a third of the country's population
(548,000 out of 1,750,000) and owned only 6% of the land, they received 55% of the
country (including both Tel Aviv/Jaffa and Haifa port cities, the Sea of Galilee and the
resource-rich Negev). In the area allocated to the Jewish state, only about 57% of the
population was actually Jewish (538,000 Jews, 397,000 Arabs).
The Jewish community
accepted the Partition Plan; the Palestinians (except those in the Communist Party) and
the Arab countries rejected it.
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Datum: 23.07.06
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