While the Jews accepted the UN Two-State solution in November 1947, the Palestinian Arab response was to riot, attack Jews in the streets, loot and burn Jewish shops, force Jews from their homes - anything to reach their goal of no Jewish state in any part of the land.
Within hours of the vote at the United Nations, Arab riots erupted across Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, and other cities. Jewish civilians were attacked in the streets, Jewish homes were assaulted, synagogues and businesses were looted and burned, and Jewish residents were forced to flee mixed neighborhoods.
The violence was not spontaneous protest — it was an organized attempt to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state in any part of the land.
Rather than building their own state alongside Israel, Palestinian Arab leaders and militias chose war. That decision set off months of escalating violence, followed by the full-scale invasion of the newborn State of Israel by surrounding Arab armies in 1948 — a war of two years launched with the explicit goal of destroying it.