What were the key effects of the UN partition plan up to 1956?

... What were the key effects of the UN partition plan up to 1956? In May 1947, the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was set up by the United Nations as a way to take control of the situation in Palestine. Jewish immigration was on the rise, and continued, after the Second World War ended in 1945. In August 1947, UNSCOP voted that once the British mandate should end, Palestine would be partitioned into both a Jewish and Arab state and that Jerusalem would be located in an international zone controlled by the UN. Thus, the UN partition plan was set up on November 29th, 1947. After the publication of the partition plan, fighting between the Arabs and Jews grew worse. The UN partition plan led to great divergence and dispute in the Middle East and eventually resulted in the War of Independence, as well as great numbers of Palestinian

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