<P> In the October 1947 Arab League conference in Aley, the Arab states rejected the option of establishing an interim Palestinian Arab government and the Lebanese prime minister Riad Al Solh in particular told Hajj Amin al - Husseini that if a Palestinian Arab government will be established, he couldn't be part of it . Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam wanted that the Arab League will manage the Arab struggle in Palestine . </P> <P> King Abdullah I of Jordan met with a delegation headed by Golda Meir (who later became Prime Minister of Israel in 1968) to negotiate terms for accepting the partition plan, but rejected its proposal that Jordan remain neutral . Indeed, the king knew that the nascent Palestinian state would soon be absorbed by its Arab neighbors, and therefore had a vested interest in being party to the imminent war . </P> <P> Soon after the UN resolution, less than half a year prior to the expiration of the British Mandate, large - scale fighting broke out between the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine . By the time Israel declared its independence on 14 May 1948, the result of these five and a half months of fighting was, according to historian Benny Morris, a "decisive Jewish victory". On one side, the "Palestinian Arab military power was crushed" and most of the Arab population in the combat zones was fleeing or had been driven out . On the other side, the "Haganah transformed from a militia into an army" and succeeded "in consolidating its hold on a continuous strip of territory embracing the Coastal Plain, the Jezreel Valley, and the Jordan Valley". The Yishuv (the Jewish community and its "state - in - waiting" - type organisations) proved it had the capability to defend itself, persuading the United States and the remainder of the world to support it and the "victory over the Palestinian Arabs gave the Haganah the experience and self - confidence (...) to confront (...) the invading armies of the Arab states ." </P> <P> On 12 April 1948, the Arab League announced: </P>

Part of palestine that was proclaimed as a jewish national state in 1948