Resolution 181
On November 29, 1947 with 33 votes in favor (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Belorussian S.S.R., Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Liberia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, Ukrainian S.S.R., Union of South Africa, USA, USSR, Uruguay, Venezuela.), 13 against (Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen.) and 10 obtained votes, that included England, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 181 which called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state, with Jerusalem taken under UN control.
Over 75% of the land given to Jews was desert. In addition, the width of Israel was on average only 9 miles wide, which is about the distance between LaGuardia airport and downtown Manhattan. Still, Jews were desperate to get anything, especially after the Holocaust that killed 6,000,000 Jews (almost 70% of the total Jewish population in Europe). The resolution was accepted by the Jews in Palestine, but rejected by the Arabs in Palestine and all Arab states that existed at the time.
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