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Delivered Fridays. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. After the failed Russian Revolution of , growing numbers of Eastern European and Russian Jews began to immigrate to Palestine, joining the few thousand Jews who had arrived earlier. The Jewish settlers insisted on the use of Hebrew as their spoken language. Although protested by the Arab states, the Balfour Declaration was included in the British mandate over Palestine, which was authorized by the League of Nations in Beginning in , Arabs and Jews openly fought in Palestine, and Britain attempted to limit Jewish immigration as a means of appeasing the Arabs.
Jewish groups employed terrorism against British forces in Palestine, which they thought had betrayed the Zionist cause. Britain, unable to find a practical solution, referred the problem to the United Nations, which in November voted to partition Palestine.
The Palestinian Arabs, aided by volunteers from other countries, fought the Zionist forces, but by May 14, , the Jews had secured full control of their U. On May 14, Britain withdrew with the expiration of its mandate, and the State of Israel was proclaimed. The Israelis, though less well equipped, managed to fight off the Arabs and then seize key territory, such as Galilee, the Palestinian coast, and a strip of territory connecting the coastal region to the western section of Jerusalem.
In , U. The departure of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs from Israel during the war left the country with a substantial Jewish majority. In , Israel and Egypt signed a historic peace agreement in which Israel returned the Sinai in exchange for Egyptian recognition and peace. The Israeli-Palestinian peace process moved slowly, however, and throughout the 21st major fighting between Israelis and Palestinians has resumed in Israel and the occupied territories.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Eleven days later, U. While still a medical student, Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had Soon after President Truman took office, he appointed several experts to study the Palestinian issue.
In the summer of , Truman established a special cabinet committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Henry F. Grady , an Assistant Secretary of State, who entered into negotiations with a parallel British committee to discuss the future of Palestine. In May , Truman announced his approval of a recommendation to admit , displaced persons into Palestine and in October publicly declared his support for the creation of a Jewish state.
Throughout , the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine examined the Palestinian question and recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. Under the resolution, the area of religious significance surrounding Jerusalem would remain a corpus separatum under international control administered by the United Nations.
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