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  2. Mandate for Palestine - Wikipedia

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    Palestine and Transjordan on a pre-World War I British government ethnographic map. Immediately following their declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, the British War Cabinet began to consider the future of Palestine [1] (at the time, an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population).

  3. Balfour Declaration - Wikipedia

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    The 3 January 1919 Faisal–Weizmann Agreement was a short-lived agreement for Arab–Jewish cooperation on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. [z] Faisal did treat Palestine differently in his presentation to the Peace Conference on 6 February 1919 saying "Palestine, for its universal character, [should be] left on one side for ...

  4. Palestine–Russia relations - Wikipedia

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    During and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Russia began to improve its relations with Israel, which had been cut off in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. During the Gulf War in early 1991, many elements of the PLO, along with Arafat, had supported Saddam. The diplomatic isolation caused the Soviet Union to scale ...

  5. Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia

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    [93] [94] [95] Although by this time British authority in most of Palestine had broken down, with most of the country in the hands of Jews or Arabs, the British air and sea blockade of Palestine remained in place. Although Arab volunteers were able to cross the borders between Palestine and the surrounding Arab states to join the fighting, the ...

  6. A brief history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict - explained

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    The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...

  7. History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict - Wikipedia

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    The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition.

  8. Israel–United Kingdom relations - Wikipedia

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    Israel–United Kingdom relations, or Anglo-Israeli relations, are the diplomatic and commercial ties between the United Kingdom and Israel. The British embassy to Israel is located in Tel Aviv. The UK has an honorary consul in Eilat [ 2 ] and a non-accredited consulate-general in Jerusalem , that represents the United Kingdom in that city and ...

  9. United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II).