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Organized by Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political zionism, establishing a legally assured home for Jews. Zionists committed themselves to return to ancient homeland.
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Henry McMahon promised Sharif Hussein independence to most arab areas.
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Britsih promised to create a Jewish homeland.
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Britain was given Palestine Mandate. League of Nation divided lands between the British and French. During same period the Arab population doubled from natural increase and immigrantion.
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The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, between 1933 and 1945.
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The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal developed by the United Nations, which recommended a partition with Economic Union of Mandatory Palestine to follow the termination of the British Mandate.
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First Arab-Israeli was and is known in Israel as the War of Independence and by the Palestinian Arabs as the Catastrophe.
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PLO was formed with the aim of destroying Israel and creating a Palestinian state in its place.
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Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordann the Golan Heights from Syria, and the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt.
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