... , 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 gave the TransJordan, the east side of the Jordan River, it's independence. This created ... a Palestine-Arab state. In 1947 the UN passed a partition on 2/3 majority that created western Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state; 75% of the land given to th...

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