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Humanity

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  • Ottoman Empire Losing Power

    The Ottoman Empire dominated modern day Israel up until World War I. However, they were a declining power in 1914. They joined WWI on the side of Germany.

  • British Government Issues Statement

    The British Government issued a statement in 1917 through the foreign secretary Arthur Balfour (known as the Balfour Declaration) that stated: “His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or

  • League of Nations give Britain a mandate

    The end of World War I saw the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. To fill the power vacuum, Britain was given a mandate to govern Palestine in 1922 by the League of Nations – the fore-runner to the UN.

  • Jews move to Palestine

    Encouraged by the Balfour declaration, many Jews moved to British controlled Palestine. By 1933, 238,000 Jews lived in the region. As a result of the rise of Hitler in Germany in 1933, 165,000 more Jews moved to the area. Many of the survivors of the Holocaust also moved to the region after World War II.

  • Britain Gives up their mandate

    Britain was now to give up the mandate over the region. The newly created UN proposed a partition plan for the mandate in 1947. It proposed a Jewish and Arab state united by an economic union whilst placing Jerusalem under UN control.

  • War Starts

    The Jewish population accepted the terms whilst the Arab leaders did not. The British withdrew from the region in 1948. The state of Israel was declared and war broke out between the newly created Israel and its neighbours.

  • Israel Gains Land

    Under the terms of 1949 Armistice Agreements, Israel gained 18% more land than the original UN proposal and the occupation of the West Bank by Jordan and the Gaza Strip by Egypt.