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The UN Partition Plan granted the Jews more than half of Palestine despite the fact that the Jews made up only one-third of the population and owned less than seven percent of the land. To this day, Israel controls through occupation, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, southern Lebanon, and the Golan Heights - all of it Arab Land. (Source: Quigley, Palestine and Israel, 47).