On the 60 per cent that s easily calculated in order to get an idea of what to google for Ruth Kark Planning Housing and Land Policy 1948 1942 The Formation of Concepts and Government Frameworks Selwyn Ilan Troen Noah Lucas eds Israel The First Decade of Independence SUNY Press 1995 pp 461 494p 478 reads The UN Partition plan allocated 11 4 million dunams to the Arab state and 14 92 million dunams to the Jewish state But when the fighting ended the land area of Israel had grown to 20 6 dunams and increase of 5 7 dunams As we all know the UN plan allocated 56 of Palestine to the minority and at war s end Israel had 77 2 of the land Philip Mattar ed Encyclopedia of the Palestinians Infobase Publishing 2000 2005 p 294 thus gaining roughly 21 more land than it was allocated With this elementary data the calculations seem simple enough to establish what percentage of the land allocated to the Palestinians was incorporated into the nascent state of Israel