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UNSCOP recommended that the British mandate over Palestine be terminated, that Palestine be granted independence, and Palestine be partitioned into separate Arab and Jewish states.

After slightly altering the proposed borders of the two new nations, the UN General Assembly approved the UNSCOP plan.

Zionist approved.
Arabs already having rejected an earlier more favorable partition offer from Britain, stood firmly in their demand for total sovereignty over Palestine.