JEWISH M142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arab Higher Committee, United Nations Partition Plan For Palestine, Ernest Bevin
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Zionism and 1948: qn: the zionist movement has had a lot of time to form a government and independent israel. Why did it wait until 1948: 1947: british foreign secretary, ernest bevin, announced to un that the mandate could not be administered in its present form, palestine becomes an international problem, not just a british one. Jewish paramilitaries fought with british | irgun and lehi affiliated with revisionist camps, led by jabotinsky, founder of revisionist movement | haganah established by histradrut. Jewish is a national criteria increasingly a problem. Jordan, egypt, syria, lebanon: first arab-israeli war, 5 standing arab armies joined the war to invade israel, the loss of e. jerusalem to jordan, ended in 1949 with armistice agreement, with vastly different borders compared to. Israelis see this as the war of revival. Un resolution 181 | israel got 78-79% of british palestine.
