... to reconcile. The Zionists envisaged large-scale Jewish immigration, and some spoke of a Jewish state constituting all of Palestine. Palestinians, however, rejected Britain's right to promise their country to a third party and feared dispossession by the Zionists. Fear of Jewish domination was the principal cause of the Arab revolt that broke out in 1936 and continued intermittently until 1939. By that ... time Britain had again restricted Jewish immigration and purchases of land. Various plans for solving the Palestine problem were rejected by one party or the other. Britain finally de...

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