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Not surprisingly, those remaining a decade later were in no mood to accept a 1947 U.N. partition plan envisaging a small, 45% Arab, state of Israel, and a Palestinian Arab state in what is now the West Bank.
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He described his profound disappointment in the 1947 U.N. partition plan, and the fact that the Jews had not been awarded Biblical places like Hebron, where the Patriarchs are buried, and Shiloh, the center of Jewish worship before the building of the First Temple.
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Even before the U.N. approved the partition of Palestine, in 1947, David Ben-Gurion, who believed that the ultra-Orthodox would become secular over the generations, quieted their objections with old-school political deals.
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