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Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine,
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Britain would grant independence to most arab areas in the Ottoman Empire
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British Balfour Declaration promised to create a Jewish homeland.
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the league of nations divided ottoman lands between the british and the french after world war 1.
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nazis persecuted jews, eventually carrying out a genocide. this resulted in the murder of 6 million jews
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in 1947 amidst growing tensions between arabs, jews, and the british, britain announced its plan to pull out of the region and turned the question of sovereignty over to the united nations
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UN partilion plan, proclaimed independence of the new state of israel on may 14 1948 . the following day, arab armies from egypt, jordan , lebanon, syria, and iraq attacked the new state
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palestine liberation organization (PLO) was formed with the aim of destroying israel
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The Israel government approved the building of settlement in the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza strip, and West Bank
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egypy, jordan,syria, and iraq moved their armie to israels borders. egypy closed the international water way
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Israel stated that it was open to returning other terroritories in exchange for peace and recognition of its right to exist.Eight Arab heads of state met in Khartoum August 29 Septmember 1, 1967 and adopted the "3 NOs" policy--no peace with Israel, and recognition of Israel, and no negotion s with Israel.
