In context, of course pro Zionist leaders such as David Ben-Gurion were strongly in favour of a plan that saw a two-thirds majority Arab population pushed back into 43% of the territory, at the time such leaders were advocating acceptance of that plan as their ideal stepping stone to to future territorial expansion over all of Palestine.

Naturally the opposing Arab leaders were against a plan that saw a majority population receive less land, a plan that was being put forward by people openly stating it was a first step to total control of everything.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_...

It's a shame a better deal could not have been struck for the benefit of all the people with a millennium plus history in the Levant, of all faiths.