Key learning points

1. During WW1, Britain occupied Palestine and made conflicting promises to different groups of people which caused tension.
2. After WW1, the British government administered Palestine, allowing Jewish immigration which caused tension and conflict.
3. After the Holocaust, large numbers of European Jews travelled to Palestine to form a Jewish state.
4. In 1947, the UN proposed the partition of Palestine to create separate Arab and Jewish states.
5. In 1948, Israel declared independence leading to the 1948 war involving neighbouring Arab states.

Keywords

• Zionist - someone who supports the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine; a movement for the protection of the state of Israel

• Mandate - an official order giving a country or governing body the authority to manage and control a specific area of land

• Revolt - an organised effort by a group of people to resist or overthrow the authority or government in power

• Partition - to divide into parts

• Paramilitary - an organised force that acts like a military unit but is not an official part of a country's armed forces

Common misconception