"On Nov. 29, 1947, UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the resolution creating partition, passed. While this resolution is frequently cited, it was of limited (if any) legal impact. General Assembly resolutions, unlike Security Council resolutions, are not binding on member states. For this reason, the resolution requested that '[t]he Security Council take the necessary measures as provided for in the plan for its implementation,' which the Security Council never did. Legally, the General Assembly Resolution was a 'recommendation' and did not create any states.
What it did do, however, was increase the fighting in Palestine. Within months the Zionists had forced out over 413,000 people. Zionist military units had stealthily been preparing for war before the UN vote and had acquired massive weaponry, some of it through a widespread network of illicit gunrunning operations in the U.S. under a number of front groups.
On May 15 Zionists announced the creation of their new state. They decided to name it 'Israel,' and chose not to set its boundaries or to write a Constitution (a situation that continues through today). Five Arab armies joined the fighting, but, contrary to general perceptions of this war, Zionist/Israeli forces outnumbered the combined Arab and Palestinian combatants.
The UN eventually managed to create a temporary and very partial ceasefire, during which Israel obtained even more armaments. A Swedish UN mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, who had previously rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis, was dispatched to negotiate an end to the violence. Israeli assassins killed him and Israel continued what it was to call its 'war of independence.'
At the end of the war, through ruthless implementation of plans to push out as many non-Jews as possible, Israel came into existence on 78 percent of Palestine.
But let us take a closer look at the violence that followed the UN recommendation.
The passing of the partition resolution in November 1947 triggered the [greatly increased level of] violence that State Department and Pentagon analysts [overwhelmingly opposed to the partition plan for reasons of principle and practicality] had predicted and for which Zionists had been preparing. [M]assacres were carried out by Zionist forces, including Zionist militias that had engaged in terrorist attacks in the area for years preceding the partition resolution. There were at least 33 massacres of Palestinian villages, half of them before a single Arab army joined the conflict [a development that occurred in 1948, after the Zionists had labeled the land they'd stolen a country and given it a name]. Zionist forces were better equipped and had more men under arms than their opponents and by the end of Israel's 'War of Independence' over 750,000 Palestinian men, women, and children were ruthlessly expelled. Zionists had succeeded in the first half of their goal. Israel, the self-described Jewish State, had come into existence.
As Israeli historian Tom Segev writes, 'Israel was born of terror, war, and revolution, and its creation required a measure of fanaticism and cruelty.'"
To which some here, who lack either or both comprehension of or affinity for the concept of principle, would respond, "WTF, it's WAR. War is cruelty ... que sera sera ..."
BTW, while it's true that "Israel did NOT invade in 1947," that much is true only because Israel did not exist in 1947. The Zionists, however, did exist at that time, and most certainly did in 1947 continue to carry on with the ruthless attacks and expulsions on Palestinian soil they had engaged in for years.