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The war began soon after the non binding vote and the SC never adopted. It is a fact not semantics. Israel won it's independence like the USA did, through war.All a matter of semantics. According to History citing one of dozens of sources that could be used:
". . .As for the UN’s “license,” the argument on its behalf was based on the dramatic vote, still fresh in memory, that had taken place on November 29, 1947 at a meeting of the United Nations in its then-headquarters in Flushing Meadows, New York. Then and there the General Assembly, by a two-thirds majority, recommended a plan for “Independent Arab and Jewish States” and a “Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem,” to be implemented two months after the British evacuation but no later than October 1, 1948. . ."
Did the UN Create Israel? » Mosaic
On May 14, 1948, Israel’s founders wanted to emphasize to the world that while the Jewish people had been born in the Land of Israel, its state was the adopted child of the United Nations.mosaicmagazine.com
The fact is nobody 'owned' the land now occupied by the tiny TINY state of Israel, but it had been under British control since 1917. Britain supported the creation of a Jewish state.
The U.N. accepted Israel as a member state May 11, 1949.
In the beginning of the Mandate the Brits didn't support ethnic cleansing or a two state solution, but a Jewish homeland as citizens of Palestine.