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Arab Opinion

- Unhappy about foreign rule

- Believed Zionists and other Jews were being favored

- Offended by being referred to as "existing non-Jewish communities"

- Couldn't take out anger on Britain so they targeted Jews

- Aristocrats viewed themselves as peace makers

- Blamed Zionists for violence and hostilities and argued that the Jews they had been living with before Zionists came did not want a separate state

- Pinned Jews as enemy and claimed they tortured Christ and poisoned Muhammad

Save the "Fatherland from the grasp of the foreign intruder and greedy Jew."

Violence Erupts

1920: 5 Jews killed in Jerusalem

- Jewish people in Jerusalem decide to organize a self-defense league (Haaganah)

Jaffa: 40 Jews killed and 200 wounded

British Response?

Onset of WWII

- Great Depression

- Hitler comes to power in Germany (1933)

- Rate of immigration of Jews reaches a peak (1935)

- Economy stimulated in Palestine

- Arab High Committee

- The Great Palestinean Revolt (1936)

- The White Paper on British rule

Conclusion

- Foreign involvement in jurisdiction over land in Palestine caused much trouble

- Arabs were angry because of the decisions of Britian

- Jews however bore the blunt of their anger

(cc) image by nuonsolarteam on Flickr

Balfour Declaration

Zionist Movement

Jews displaced from Holy Land

19th Century

2,000 years before Balfour Declaraction

November 2, 1917

Jewish Opinion

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"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

- Thought Arab aristocrats stirred up hostilities

- Economic hardship was a burden for them

- Zionists who purchased land were resented by poor Arabs

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