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• #4 First Four Chart • Date & label your work Four Minutes - 03/21/18 – Sources of the Conflict • From your understanding, what was the biggest source of conflict in Palestine between WW I & WW II? - Keep this with all of your other First Four work. End

How do we resolve conflict? • Guiding Questions: How was the Jewish state of Israel established? 1. What was the significance of Palestine at the end of the Second World War? 2. How was the state of Israel established?

Palestine Post WW I • What were Arabs & Jews hoping? • Instead… • League of Nations gave Palestine to Great Britain as a mandate. • Arabs felt betrayed. Jews thought GB wanted an Arab state. Both sides mad!

Palestine Post WW I • Periodic rioting & fighting • 1929 - 133 Jews & 116 Arabs killed in fighting over control of The Western Wall • 1936 -1939 three-year Arab Uprising against British control • 1937 – British drew up plans to partition Palestine

Jewish Immigration to Palestine Date # of Jews as % of Population 1918 60, 000 9 1931 175, 000 18 1939 429, 000 28 How is this impacting the conflict?

How is this impacting the conflict?

1939 White Paper • 1939 – British White Paper on Palestine • Attempt to pacify Arabs • Called for a Jewish homeland in an independent Palestinian state within 10 years • No partition • Limited Jewish Immigration to 75, 000 for 5 years • Limited Jewish rights to buy Arab land. • Jewish reaction?

The White Paper of 1939 Challenged the British Mandate • The British Mandate which was formed July of 1922. • The League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the Mandate for Palestine. • The historical connection was recognized between the establishment of a Jewish home in Israel and then the mandate was created. • Part of the mandate required the active involvement of Jewish organizations in establishing the new Jewish homeland • David Ben-Gurion came in and led the push for these things.

David Ben-Gurion • He formed the Jewish Labor Zionist Movement party and helped set up infrastructure of Jewish State in Israel. • He later would become first prime minister of Israel • Also known as one of the primary founders of the State of Israel • Was the leader of the Jewish Community in Palestine • Also was known as Israel’s First Minister of Defense.

The White Paper of 1939 challenges the British Mandate • The White Paper of 1939 declared that Balfour was not fair to the Arab people • This White Paper was a direct blow to the Zionists, who explicitly sought a Jewish state with or without Arab consent. Why do you think the British issued the White Paper? What did they need?

The British issued the White Paper because… • The threat of WW 2 was all over Europe and The British wanted to secure the good will of the Arab people so that they will fight against the Nazi’s as well. • The Jews have no choice, but to support the British in their fight against the Nazi’s. Why is this? • The Jews in Palestine are very unhappy about the British White Paper that limits the immigration of the Jewish people to Palestine during an extremely rough time for Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

Britain’s refusal to lift Immigration bans and refusal to acknowledge Jewish state • Led to much rebellion by Jews in Palestine. • Around 1945, David Ben-Gurion resorted to military measures, using arms that had been stockpiled during WW 2. • The Haganah—Jewish Militia, supported the Irgun and the LEHI • These three groups assassinated British officers, soldiers, and police • British respond by arresting and raiding the Jewish Agency and leaders of the Haganah. • Menachem Begin (future prime minister) Irgun’s bomb the King David Hotel in 1946

HOMEWORK • Read pp. 359 -362, What was the significance for Palestine of the Second World War?