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British census places population of Palestine at “689,272 persons, of whom no more (and perhaps less) than 60,000 were Jews”
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agreement divides Arabian peninsula between British and French; Palestine left an international zone
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(Vladimir Jabotinsky and Stern Gang) begin negotiations with Nazis over support for Zionist settlement in Palestine; Jewish population increases more rapidly, reaching 528,702 by 1944 (out of 1,739,624 total)
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250 killed by Menachim Begin’s troops; flight of as many as 900,000 unarmed Palestinians to surrounding Arab states; Israeli statehood proclaimed,
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with Israeli forces invading southern Lebanon; operation leads to more than 17,000 Arab deaths and culminates in massacres of thousands of civilians at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps
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