... simply bare desert. However there were half a million Arabs there. Some felt they should go and find another homeland land and others felt they could simply absorb them into their culture. Many Arabs welcomed them at first and helped them on the land, but as more Zionists arrived, pressure on land increased. The Zionist aim of independence cut them off from ... which the Arabs were forced to defend for themselves. It was this stage that the British began to move in. it provided a main sea route and was a land route to India, there was also oil supplies in Iraq so they established themse...

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