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What if Jerusalem became an independent city-state in 1948 like was originally planned? Would Jews and Arabs still fight over it?

What do you think it would be called?

"Mandatory Palestine" (and still under British rule, effectively a rump state from OTL's Mandatory Palestine"
"Kingdom of Jerusalem" (put some European royal who is low in the line of succession on the throne, like OTL's Greece, an advantage of this is that the name "Kingdom of Jerusalem" is equally objectionably to Jews and Muslims, and thus, would not be seen as taking a side)
"Free City of Jerusalem" (seemed like a normal naming scheme for the time)
"Hierosolymitan State" (My preference, but I'm probably biased)
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