This map shows the borders of the new State of Israel
after the War of Independance. The UN didn't inforce their partition
resolution and no international force was stationed in Jerusalem and Bethlehem,
so the war determined the borders, not the UN. Israel ended
up with more land than the UN plan offered, including West Jerusalem. And no independant Arab
state was set up in the remainder of the land. Instead Jordan occupied the
Westbank, and Egypt occupied Gaza.
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