By the way, that's not spin. Almost no fighting occurred in areas that had been allotted to Israel by the UN. However, Israel had already, in the several months prior to its declaration of its independence, ethnically cleansed many thousands of Palestinians from land that had been allotted to the Palestinians by the UN. Israel was already in the process of clearing out and securing for itself, land that had been allotted to the Palestinians by the UN even before it declared its independence.