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249. The only thing you've "proven" is that the UN Committee did indeed recommend

partition, that the General Assembly accepted that recommendation by a greater than two thirds majority of the voting members, and that the Jewish Agency finally proceeded with implementation despite the fact that the Arab Higher Committee was stamping its feet and holding its breath because the outcome of the vote was not to its liking.

Your reading of the word "unilaterally" in this instance is incorrect. The UN ratified the partition plan and representatives of the Jewish Agency accepted the plan. "Unilaterally" simply means that the Jewish Agency acted to implement the plan without Arab "permission" (which it didn't need) and despite the fact that Arabs refused to honor the General Assemly's decision.

When the Arab Higher Committee refused to go forward with the partition plan because their recommendation (the plan of Subcommittee 2) was rejected, the Jewish Agency began to implement the plan while the Arab Higher Committee sad stubornly on the sidelines.

What did you expect, for the Jewish Agency to wait until Hitler's buddy the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini gave them permission (which they didn't need) to proceed?

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Fun fact: The term "Palestinian" as a descriptor of a nationality or a single ethnicity does not appear in any of the relevant UN documents.

The terms used by the UN were Jewish Population of Palestine and Arab Population of Palestine. "Jew" and "Arab" were used as the descriptors for national groups, and if the UN found it necessary to reference the non-Jewish demographic in the region, it used the term "Palestinian Arabs" or "the Arab population in Palestine".

The terms Zionist and Palestinian Arab were used as well in Resolution 181 when the UN outlined the citizenship plan for the two independent states.