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Israel Palestine

Overview

Territory Time lapse
1945 Palestine land ownership
Partition Plan territory split It looks like the jews got a lot but most of it was Negev desert
data for partition plan

Notes

Balfour Declaration-1917

The main reason behind the Declaration was Zionist Lobbying, Lloyd George and Balfour were both Zionists and Lloyd George was indebted to Weizmann, a leader of the Zionist movement. They used hopes of swaying America/Russia to justify this. Both cabinet members were quite sympathetic to Zionism, In a conversation with Weizmann about the Jewish Tragedy, Belfour shed tears. Lloyd George had Jewish friends and visited Israel and told them that the declaration came from a place of sympathy. The claims of swaying Russia/US were either optimistic or overestimating the Jewish power around the world.

There are many other theories as to why Britain made this declaration:

Declaration effects
Was the Balfour Declaration fair?

Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine was the British owned Palestine
The Mandate was terminated on 14 May 1948

Who was responsible for the start of the Arab-Israeli conflict?

It seems like the Jews were immigrating to Palestine peacefully, and the Arabs were killing them because they felt threatened because of the Balfour Declaration.
Are the Jews really supposed to purity-test the British mandate when they are being slaughtered all over the world?
However the Jews most likely knew what they were doing when they immigrated, they were the settlers.

Arab Revolt 1936

1947 Partition Plan

1947-1948 Civil war

70,000 Arabs fled in December
There were a lot of massacres, not very cool from both sides

Declaration Of Independence

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Questions

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