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"His Majesty's Government have been faced with an irreconcilable conflict of principles. There are in Palestine about 1,200,000 Arabs and 600,000 Jews. For the Jews the essential point of principle is the creation of a sovereign Jewish State. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist to the last establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine. The discussions of the last month have quite clearly shown that there is no prospect of resolving this conflict by any settlement negotiated between the parties. But if the conflict has to be resolved by an arbitrary decision, that is not a decision which His Majesty's Government are empowered, as Mandatory, to take. His Majesty's Government have of themselves no power, under the terms of the Mandate, to award the country either to the Arabs or to the Jews, or even to partition it between them."}}
The [[United NationsKomite SpecialKhusus CommitteePBB onuntuk PalestinePalestina]] (UNSCOP) wasdibentuk createdpada ontanggal 15 MayMei 1947, reporteddilaporkan onpada tanggal 3 September 1947 anddan onpada tanggal 29 November 1947, the [[UnitedRencana NationsPemisahan PartitionPBB Planuntuk for PalestinePalestina]] was passeddisahkan. It recommended that the MandateDirekomendasikan terminateagar asMandat soondiakhiri assesegera possiblemungkin anddan notpaling laterlambat thantanggal 1 AugustAgustus 1948.<ref name="auto">{{wikisource-inline|United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181}}</ref>
TwoDua weeksminggu laterkemudian, onpada tanggal 11 DecemberDesember, ColonialSekretaris SecretaryKolonial [[Arthur Creech Jones]] announcedmengumumkan thatbahwa theMandat BritishInggris Mandateakan wouldberakhir terminatepada ontanggal 15 MayMei 1948.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Martin|title=Failure in Palestine: British and United States Policy After the Second World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXXqDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA296|date=6 October 2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1-4742-9127-9}}</ref>{{efn|group=qt|Creech Jones stated to the House of Commons: "Before the conclusion of the discussions, Sir Alexander Cadogan announced on behalf of the Government that the withdrawal of our Forces and administration would be effected by 1 August 1948... It will be appreciated that the mandatory responsibility for government in Palestine cannot be relinquished piecemeal. The whole complex of governmental responsibilities must be relinquished by the Mandatory Government for the whole of Palestine on an appointed day. As I have indicated, once our military withdrawal is properly under way, the forces necessary for exercising this responsibility will no longer be adequately available, and it will not, therefore, be possible to retain full mandatory responsibility after a certain date. The Mandate will, therefore, be terminated some time in advance of the completion of the withdrawal, and the date we have in mind for this, subject to negotiation with the United Nations Commission, is 15 May."<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1947/dec/11/palestine Hansard, Palestine]: HC Deb 11 December 1947 vol 445 cc1207-318</ref>}}
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