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| quote: | Initial support for an Israeli state came in the 1917 Balfour Declaration made by the British government asserting:
“His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country".
And thus Jewish emigration to Palestine began, with the support of the UK and U.S., and following World War 1, the support of the League of Nations who assigned the U.K. the “Palestine Mandate” which granted the British control over the lands of modern Israel & Jordan. The British encouraged Jewish immigration to Palestine throughout the 20’s and 30’s, and following the Second World War, international support for an independent state of Israel became overwhelming.
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This is a little bit historically imprecise. First immigration waves ("aliyah") were during the time the idea of the Zionist project was first postulated: At the end of the 19th century (1897 etc.), mainly from Russia.
Secondly: While the British first supported immigration, they more or less changed sides during the late 1930s culminating in the White Paper of 1939 which both lowers the promises of the Balfour Declaration and also demands an end of ongoing Jewish immigration - leading the ten thousands of Jews being stopped in Cyprus.
Other than that pretty much correct. I'd be interested in the other parts of your paper!
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