mmigrants and especially Arabs and promised them their own sovereign states. With a revolution lead by the Arabs, the Ottoman Empire was over thrown. (Gazit)
             At the end of World War I, the British government had almost full control of the region and was faced with fulfilling its promises which it made with both the Arabs and the Jews. The Balfour declaration which took place in 1917, called for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The declaration was met with vast opposition from the Arab population who, at this point, were becoming fearful of the Zionist expansion. Thus the British and the French were given the control of the region up until World War II. In the short span between the two world wars, the Jewish population grew from 12 % to 28%.(Schafer)
             After the second world war, in 1947, the United Nations formulated a partition plan which divided the country between the Palestinians and the Jews. The control of the Holy Land or the city of Jerusalem was given an international status which was controlled by the United Nations. At the time Jews were only one third of the population of Palestine and owned only 6% of the land. Yet the partition plan granted the Jewish state 55% of the total land area. (Gazit)
             The Zionist leaders of Israel accepted the plan but halfheartedly. The territory granted to establish the state of Israel was still not large enough to home hundreds of thousands of Jews from around the world. This wasn't the case for the Palestinians who rejected the plan in hope of possession of the whole region. The whole idea of the "promised land" and the fact that they will have to give up their land seemed quite absurd to the local Arab
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