After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in World War ... the mandate to govern Palestine. During this period, Palestine was characterised by a Jewish minority and an Arab majority. The British ...

which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was created, sparking the first Arab-Israeli War. The war ended in 1949 ...

The cause of a Palestinian state was adopted by the Arab League (AL) as a cynical ploy from its very origins: in 1945, the year the AL was founded and World War ... British Empire's Palestine ...