Its one of those things that couldn't happen in the world today.
In those days most of the independent nations in the world were white European nations and favored (European) Jewish interests over Arab.
The Zionists just wanted the land without the people. The plans were stated back in the late 19th century (waaaay before 1920s, as other posters are trying to make you think...). The Zionists wanted a state with a Jewish majority and the only way was to get rid of most of the native inhabitants. On the eve of the proposed enactment of the two UN-mandated states, the Jewish population was a small minority and owned very little land, few businesses, little agricultural produce, minimal infrastructure, etc. Zionism had not really been a success up to that point. The Zionists did, however, have much better and more numerous arms, so they went to war. The war had the dual benefit of expelling the Palestinian population while also awakening western Jewish interest in Zionism and, also initiated a pattern of claiming "they'll destroy us! They'll throw us into the sea!" while the reality proves quite the opposite.
Here's a nice montage that provides the facts of what the Zionists were dealing with demographically and geographically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZgbcmfM9SQ
BULLSHIT AND LIES
The UN was ANTI SEMITIC to its core and would have thrown the Jews to the wolves if the worlds eyes were not fixed firmly on all it did. The partition plan was designed to fail right from the start if you look at the way the two countries were set out. The west turned a blind eye to soviet mass murder of the Jews in the 1930's, then again to German mass murder of the Jews in 1940's and finally to the British mass murder of the Jews in the late 1940's when they tried to take up the LoN offer and invitation to settle in Palestine.
Under Ottoman rule the land did not have an arab muslim population just a Jewish and Christian one, the arab muslims did not like the thought of the hard work involved. So there was no invasion of Zionists evicting the indigenous people from their homes to pave the way for a Jewish takeover. On the eve of the mandate being passed to the UN the Jews who were the majority land owners declared independence on the land originally allocated to them under the proposal. They added a codicil to the declaration calling on all arab muslims that resided in Israel to accept full Isreali citizenship and live in peace. The arab muslims rejected the offer and became internal enemies subject to eviction once the war started by the arab muslims was over. Once again the UN showed bias and racism towards the Jews by stating that all internal enemies were refugees and had the right to return even though customary International law was opposed to this. The war did not expel the Palestinians at all as they are still living in Israel as full citizens, who was expelled were the internal enemies that the Israelis had every legal right to either execute as war criminals, intern as enenies of the state or evict from the country. The historical evidence shows that the arab league had the intention of wiping out the majority of the Jews, keeping just a few to be sex slaves and farm slaves while they carved up the land between themselves.
Those are the real facts as provided by the Ottoman history files and the UN archives, both of which your JEW HATING ISLAMONAZIS have no control over.
Aenmity>>>
Phoenall, are you actually seriously trying to make us believe that Palestine did not have a Muslim population under the British mandate?
could you define "Palestine under the british mandate"??? there were muslims
Christians and jews living in mandate Palestine (not enough Zoroastrians or hindus to
consider
And you are saying that the ONLY people expelled by Israel in 1948 were "internal enemies" and the z's were really being nice by not executing them (all 750,000 of them!).
I (rosie) say based on all available information----that Israel actually
"expelled" no one in 1948 In fact jewish populations living in
arab lands were not "expelled" in 1948 either
OK, that is really too stupid to warrant a response. Even you manifestly don't believe it, and no one else will either.