Originally Posted by jayeff

Suggestion: read some history. Palestine was created as a British mandate after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the first world war. Unlike the other mandates, Palestine did not become an independent state because the British government had stated its desire to create a homeland for the Jews.

Large-scale immigration, primarily from Russia and Eastern Europe began in the 1920's and increased during the 1930's during Hitler's rise to power. It had created enough pressure to result in violence on both sides, even before WW2 began.