1. In its plan for partition, the UNSCOP projected a Jewish state with 497,000 Arabs and 90,000 Bedouin; the final plan adopted by the UN on 29 November 1947, allotted the enclave of Jaffa and Beersheba to the Arab state, which reduced the projected Arab population by about 180,000, according to estimates given in various UN hearings. See UNSCOP Report to General Assembly, official record, second session, supp. 11; Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestine Question, summary records of meetings, 25 September-25 November 1947, 19–24.
2. Rony E. Gabbay,A Political Study of the Arab-Jewish Conflict: The Arab Refugee Problem(Geneva, 1959), 110.
3. Michael Bar-Zohar,Ben-Gurion: A Political Biography, vol. 2 (Hebrew, Tel Aviv, 1977), 702–3.
4. David Ben-Gurion,War Diaries, 3 vols. ed. G. Rivlin and E. Orren (Hebrew, Tel Aviv, 1982), 1 May 1948, 382.