The third failure – even more tragic – occurred in 1947-48, when Palestinian Arabs rejected the United Nations partition plan, which envisaged separate Arab and Jewish states after the departure of the British. While Jews accepted this compromise, the Palestinian Arabs, supported by the Arab League countries, rejected it and went to war against the emerging State of Israel.
第三次失败——也是更加悲剧性的失败——发生在1947-1948年，当时巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人拒绝了联合国的分割计划，该计划设想在英国人离开后把阿拉伯人和以色列人划分成两个国家。以色列接受了这个妥协，但是巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人在阿拉伯联盟国家的支持下拒绝了该计划，并且发动了与刚刚诞生的以色列国的战争。