PALESTINE WAR

30 November 1947 – 14 May 1948

CIVIL WAR IN MANDATORY PALESTINE

Jewish Zionist nationalists accept the UN Partition Plan but it is rejected by Palestinian Arab nationalists. Civil war breaks out in between the two communities while the British organise their withdrawal and only occasionally intervene.

2 November 1917

BALFOUR DECLARATION

British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour writes a public statement during WWI to advocate a “national home