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In 1947, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed that Palestine (Israel) should be divided. In November 1947, a UN Special Committee on Palestine presented a report to the General Assembly, with a majority advocating division, but a minority advocating a unitary state based on democracy. Of course, this did not yet divide the territory, but it set the process in train. At first, the proposal was for the Palestinians to receive the major portion of the divided territory, but the Jews gradually achieved concessions, until a United Nations "Green Line" was drawn, dividing the territory approximately into two, by means of four sectors which touched at one point, so that a Jew or Palestinian need not cross the other's territory in order to move from one of his two sectors to the other. After the British forces moved out in 1948, the Jews declared independence, thus pre-empting any formal action by the UN to split the territory. 1948

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