Palestine was in fact in a pre-state stage.
The British mandate should have been extended, as they had failed to do what was envisaged in bringing Palestine to statehood, with all the necessary institutions.
This was due to both the interruption of WWII and terrorist groups such as Irgun and Haganah, which had murdered Arabs and British to prevent a state being created by the indigenous people.
Good old Ariel Sharon - you remember him , the war criminal - he had a big hand in that. Partly why the Zionists love him as he was one of their terrorists.
Irgun and Haganah were created to protect the local Jewish communities from being attacked like they have been several times. And where did you read that they milled Arabs and Brits to prevent a state being created by the so called 'Palestinians'??? It was the Jews who accepted the partition plan .
Accepting partition was hardly in good faith. They felt that they could get that foothold and expand it. And partition was not the expectation of the Mandate, just an apparent face-saver for the UN when the European invaders proved they were not going to try to get along with the natives.
Partition was always the mandates intent as they had already partitioned Palestine into Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. This left 5% of the original Palestine land for the RESURECTED NATIONAL HOME FOR THE JEWS. If Husseini had been silenced before wars end then there would not have been any problems.
It was the arab muslims that showed they would not get along with their former slaves and started violent uprisings and terrorist attacks to force the British into giving in to their demands. They then declared open war on the Jews contrary to the UN charter which they were signatories to