I'm assuming this is what you're referring to:
On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 (the Partition Plan) by a vote of 33–13 with 10 abstentions. It recommended (it was not a binding Security Council decision) terminating the Mandate and partitioning Palestine into:
- An independent Jewish state
- An independent Arab state
- An international zone for Jerusalem and its surroundings
The plan allocated roughly 55–56% of the territory to the Jewish state (which then had about one-third of the population) and the rest to the Arab state, with economic union between them. Britain abstained and stated it would not enforce the plan by force.Immediate aftermath
- Jewish leadership (Jewish Agency) accepted the plan as a basis for statehood, despite dissatisfaction with the borders and exclusion of Jerusalem.
- Arab leadership (Arab Higher Committee and Arab League states) rejected it outright, viewing it as unjust and a violation of the principle of self-determination for the Arab majority.
End of the Mandate and full-scale war
- Britain terminated the Mandate at midnight on 14–15 May 1948.
- On 14 May 1948, Jewish leaders under David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independence of the State of Israel.
- The next day, armies from Egypt, Transjordan (Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded the former Mandate territory, beginning the interstate phase of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Outcome (by the 1949 armistice agreements)
- Israel survived and expanded beyond the UN partition lines, controlling about 77–78% of the former Mandate territory.
- No independent Palestinian Arab state was established at the time. Jordan took control of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem); Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip.
- Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled (the Nakba/Catastrophe; commonly estimated at around 700,000+ refugees). Jewish communities in Arab countries also faced expulsion or flight in subsequent years, leading to large-scale Jewish immigration to Israel.
- Armistice lines (the “Green Line”) became the de facto borders until the 1967 Six-Day War.
Yes, the Arabs tried to steal territory they had never ruled by force and violence. So answer my question:
If Jordan ruled the West Bank from 48-67, why did they not create a palestinian state? If they did not, why does Israel have to?