British Policy
Balfour Declaration 1917
1937 Peel Commission, idea of partition
1947 decision to end Mandate
Terrorism
1944 Stern Gang kill Lord Moyne
1946 King David Hotel attack kills 88
1947 2 British soldiers killed by Irgun after 3 Irgun executed
International Support
WWII/Holocaust, international sympathy, UN partition plan
Truman supported partition
USA, Jewish Lobby, Biltmore Programme
Actions of Jews
Established institutions of statehoodeg Haganah
Jewish immigration into Palestine 1919-48, strengthened Jewish position
Zionism. LT aim of homeland
TWE did British policy in Palestine - creation of Israel