Black, Ian (2017). Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017(en inglés). Londres: Penguin Books. p. 107. ISBN9780241004432. Consultado el 11 de marzo de 2019. «On 29 November 1947 the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, leaving Jerusalem under UN supervision as a “corpus separatum”. (…) The proposed Jewish state was to consist of 55 percent of the country, including the largely unpopulated Negev desert.Its population would comprise some 500.000 Jews and 400.000 Arabs –a very substantial minority. Jews, at that point, owned just 7 percent of Palestine’s private land. The Arabe state was to have 44 percent of the land and a minority of 10.000 Jews. Greater Jerusalem was to remain under international rule.»
Black, Ian (2017). Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (en inglés). Londres: Penguin Books. p. 108. ISBN9780241004432. Consultado el 11 de marzo de 2019. «Later that day, the Palestinian leadership proclaimed a general strike in protest while the Haganah called on Jews aged between seventeen and twenty-five to register for military service.»
Black, Ian (2017). Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (en inglés). Londres: Penguin Books. p. 105. ISBN9780241004432. Consultado el 11 de marzo de 2019. «This incident (…) is generally regarded as marking the start of Israel’s war of Independence and the Palestinian Nakba or “catastrophe”. The motives of the perpetrators were said to be clannish and criminal rather than national »
