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Arab Disappointment at Versailles, 1919

Arab Disappointment at Versailles, 1919. The Balfour Declaration incorporated into British Mandate over Palestine. Iraq, Jordan and Palestine all more or less under British control. Only the Arabian peninsula truly independent. The Middle East Between the Wars.

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Arab Disappointment at Versailles, 1919

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  1. Arab Disappointmentat Versailles, 1919 The Balfour Declaration incorporated into British Mandate over Palestine. Iraq, Jordan and Palestine all more or less under British control. Only the Arabian peninsula truly independent.

  2. The Middle East Between the Wars

  3. British Mandate in PalestineCreatedafter WW1. Transjordan divided from Palestine.

  4. Jews & Arabs in Palestine, 1920 • In 1920, there was 1 Jew toevery 10 Arabs inPalestine. • By 1947, the ratio was 2 Arabs forevery Jew.

  5. Jewish Settlements: The Kibbutz System • First one founded in 1908. • Communal living. • “Make the DesertBloom!” • Land often acquired from absentee Arab landlords

  6. Jewish immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate

  7. Palestine Arab Revolt: 1936-1939 Their Goals: • An end to Jewish immigration to Palestine. • An end to the transferof lands to Jewish owners. • A new “generalrepresentative government.”

  8. The Peel Commission Partition Plan, 1937

  9. British White Paper of 1939 • Limited Jewish immigration toPalestine to 75,000 over the next five years. • It ended Jewish landpurchases. • Independence forPalestine within 10 years. • It is NOT British policythat Palestine become aJewish state.

  10. Nazi Concentration & Extermination Camps

  11. The Nazi Holocaust • 6,000,00 Jews killed by the Nazis [1/2 in the concentration camps.]

  12. Aliyah Bet : Illegal Jewish Immigration

  13. Aliyah Bet • Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine. • The Exodus, 1947.

  14. Jewish “Freedom Fighters”(or “Terrorists”?) Irgun Zvai Leumi[Natl. Military Org.] Avraham Stern &The Stern Gang

  15. U. N. Partition Plan of 1947

  16. Israel Becomes a Nation:May 14, 1948 Chaim Weizmann,1st President David Ben-Gurion,1st Prime Minister

  17. War Begins!: May 15, 1948

  18. Arab Refugees, 1948 The Palestinian Diaspora begins!

  19. Armistice Signed, 1949

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