November 1947 Fighting in Areas Earmarked for Jewish Statehood

“Most of the fighting between November 1947 and mid-May 1948 occurred in the areas earmarked for Jewish statehood … and where the Jews enjoyed demographic superiority. Almost no fighting occurred in the almost exclusively Arab-populated central and upper Galilee and Samaria …”

Source: Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2008. 78; http://www.middleeastpiece.com/palestinianviolence.html