Original sentence: Both these developments put pressure on the British to either grant the Jews a state in Palestine or quit the League of Nations Mandate - they did the latter in 1948 on the heels of a United Nations resolution partitioning the territory between Jews and Arabs
Edited sentence: Both these developments put pressure on the British to either grant the Jews a state in Palestine or quit the League of Nations Mandate - they did the latter in 1948 on the heels of a United Nations General Assembly resolution recommending partitioning the territory between Jews and Arabs.His role as political and military defense chief in the 1948 War of Independence remains deeply controversial with questions over his factual and/or moral responsibility for the mass flight of Palestinian Arab refugees, and the takeover of their lands and properties