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On this day in 1947: UN votes to establish Jewish & Arab states in British Mandate Palestine
UN General Assembly votes to establish Jewish & Arab states in British Mandate Palestine, 29 November 1947 Ten years ago, the Arabic word Nakba (‘catastrophe’)