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The United Nations General Assembly adopts Resolution 181 calling for the partition of Palestine into two separate states—an Arab and a Jewish one (Map) that would retain an economic union with an internationalized Jerusalem. In the 1910s, both groups, the Zionist Jews, recent emigrants from Russia and Europe who came to the ancient homeland of the Jews to establish a Jewish national state. and the native Palestinians had claimed the British-controlled territory. More