The Zionist leadership and Jewish Yishuv heads in Eretz Israel decided to support the proposal, even though the Jews would only be given 55% of the territory of Palestine, not including Jerusalem. The chance to obtain UN recognition for a Jewish state, even a small one, prevailed over the proposal's disadvantages. On November 29, 1947 the UN Assembly passed the resolution for the partition of Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state and an Arab state within its borders. The Jews in Palestine and throughout the world rejoiced at the historic resolution. The Arabs, however, rejected it outright and declared that they would "drown it in blood."