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The Balfour Declaration which was based on the zionist principles of creating a Jewish state near Jerusalem
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Support for the Zionist movement in the Paris Peace Conference by the allies. Israel was not actually created yet and the Zionist movement actually goes all the way back to the 1890s.
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Jews protest non violently for a state, Palestinians want complete governmental control in the area.
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The US finally grants the Philippines the freedom they were promised. However they maintained their military basis in the area. Phillippines get independence
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The Day of Direct Action was a call for Muslim independence. Advocates of the Muhammad Ali Jinnah (head of the Muslim league) feared Hindu domination and wanted a new state. Gandhi and some members of the Indian National Congress such as Nehru envisioned the horrors of a divided state. Day of Direct Action and the Divided State