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The UN resolution on Palestine, of 29 November 1947, for Abdallah was a landmark in little more than a symbolic sense — since he had already been acting on the assumption that the UN would endorse partition, there was no need for him to lay out a new course. What is more, once partition had become the internationally accepted solution and a date had been set for the termination of the mandate, Abdallah felt confident he could proceed safely with the plans he had lined up.
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Nevo, J. (1996). The Crucial Phase. In: King Abdallah and Palestine. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378834_6
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