After WWI, at the Paris Peace Conference, it was agreed that Palestine would become a League of Nations Mandate, entrusted in Great Britain. Britain main order of business was to implement the Balfour Declaration, which simply declared a national home for the Jewish people. Territorial restrictions weren’t place on the Jewish homeland, though. Then in July 1922 the British divided the “Holy Land” into two districts. The land that was given to the Jews, west of the Jordan River, was only about 22% of Palestine. They didn’t even receive a quarter of the land they were promised. Mandate passports went along with this division. In 1946, Britain partitioned Palestine and gav

The Arabs saw this whole conflict as a war of liberation. That would draw anybody to scratch and claw for their people. They felt it was their sacred duty to sacrifice and fight for liberation. They dubbed the war “Jihad;” the “Holy War.” The Arabs were driven from their land in 1948, and everything they built: homes, businesses, orchards, and so on were used or destroyed by the Jewish people. How could the Arabs not retaliate? It was time for them to stand up and fight for their freedoms.

In 1994 a full peace agreement was created and signed by Israel and Jordan. Backing from the US under the Clinton administration, the second agreement between the Israelis and the Palestine, the Wye agreement, restarted the peace process.

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