HIST 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ethnic Cleansing, Camp David Accords, Palestine Liberation Organization
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British against turks at the time who had control of most of the arab region. During 19th century, jewish people started assimilating. British foreign minster went to the zionists and talked about them going to palestine for their. European jews in hopes of creating their own homeland. Zionists people looking for a jewish homeland. Small jewish population would reside there, with the arabs domination (2 arabs for every 1 jew) Wanted a multicultural nation british had no territory at the time, but wanted to mandate it after the war. To control their territories for oil and control of the suez canal. Intruded on the nations but did not have any british settlers residing there. Arabs felt cheated of their independence from british. Refugees of the war that were jewish did not want to be in europe. Many in the west were sympathetic towards them british still opposed jew majority in.