Not accurate. The British had already used 77% of Palestine to create Jordan, so the UN partition plan was dealing only with 23% of Palestine and gave 10.81% of Palestine for an additional Arab state and 12.19% for a so called Jewish state, however while the proposed Arab state would have had a population of 900,000 Arabs and only 10,000 Jews the Jewish state would have had only 500,000 Jews and 400,000 Arabs, and the Arab response was to threaten to eradicate all the Jews if they accepted the UN's proposal.
So, under the Partition plan the Jewish state would have ended up with a little over 12% of Palestine but had a population of 500,000 Jews and 400,000 Arabs, and the Arab state would have ended up with close to 88% of Palestine.
As soon as Israel accepted the UN partition plan, despite all its flaws, the Arabs attempted to invade the new state of Israel with the announced intention of eradicating all the Jews
War of Extermination
An October 11, 1947 report on the pan-Arab summit in the Lebanese town of Aley,
[9] by
Akhbar al-Yom‘s editor Mustafa Amin, contained an interview he held with Arab League secretary-general Azzam. Titled, “A War of Extermination,” the interview read as follows (translated by Efraim Karsh; all ellipses are in the original text):
Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha spoke to me about the horrific war that was in the offing… saying:
“I personally wish that the Jews do not drive us to this war, as this will be a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Tartar massacre
[10] or the Crusader wars. I believe that the number of volunteers from outside Palestine will be larger than Palestine’s Arab population, for I know that volunteers will be arriving to us from [as far as] India, Afghanistan, and China to win the honor of martyrdom for the sake of Palestine … You might be surprised to learn that hundreds of Englishmen expressed their wish to volunteer in the Arab armies to fight the Jews.
“This war will be distinguished by three serious matters. First—faith: as each fighter deems his death on behalf of Palestine as the shortest road to paradise; second, [the war] will be an opportunityfor vast plunder. Third, it will be impossible to contain the zealous volunteers arriving from all corners of the world to avenge the martyrdom of the Palestine Arabs, and viewing the war as dignifying every Arab and every Muslim throughout the world …
Of the countless threats of violence, made by Arab and Palestinian leaders in the run up to and in the wake of the November 29, 1947 partition resolution, none has resonated more widely than the warning by Abdul Rahman Azzam, the Arab League's first
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The Arabs were soundly defeated and were fleeing when the UN persuaded the Jews, now Israelis, to accept a true, and that left the new state of Israel in control of what is now called pre 1967 Israel, now widely considered the legitimately sovereign state of Israel. The land the Palestinians claim they lost in that war was lost because of their failed attempt to kill all the Jews and their refusal to live in peace with the Jews after the war.
The losses the Arabs suffered in 1967 and 1973 were also due to their attempts to destroy the Jews and the continuation of present conditions are due to the Arabs, now mostly the Palestinians, refusal to live in peace with Israel. All of the conflicts between the Arabs and the Jews have been started by the Arabs and there have never been any aggressions by the Jews aimed at acquiring Arab land and the failure to find resolutions to these problems is the refusal of the Palestinians to live in peace with Jews.
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