"The Palestine problem look birth with the disintegration of the Turkish Ottoman Empire after the world war 1. Palestine was also among the several former Ottoman Arab territories which were placed under Great Britain under the Mandates System of the League of Nations pursuant to the League's Covenant (Article 22). "
Except Palestine all of these Mandated Territories became fully independent 8tHcs. The exception was Palestine where, instead of being limited to "the rendering l of administrative assistance and advice" the Mandate had as a primary objective the implement million of the "Balfour Declaration" issued by the British Government in I917.declanng support for "the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine."
During the years of the Palestine Mandate from 1922 to 1947 large-scale Jewish immigration from abroad, mainly from Eastern Europe took place, the numbers swelling in the 1930s with the notorious Nazi persecution of Jewish
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