The Arab-Israeli Conflict In The 1947-Palestine War Of Independence

Chenika Bukes
Over 20,000 people were murdered during the 1947-1948 War of Independence. The British's involvement in the conflict during the 1910's-1940's is responsible for those deaths through a narrative of events in the upcoming years to the war. The British fuelled the Arab-Israeli conflict by antagonising the Palestinian Arabs, by sentencing the Jewish people to death and by beginning the 1947-1948 Mandatory Palestine war of independence. The Arab-Israeli conflict roughly began with 'minor' disagreements and altercations since the late 19th century up until present day. Whenever the British got involved in the conflict, something seemed to go wrong. The Arabs were antagonised by the British when the McMahon agreement was not seen through.
After the McMahon agreement and Balfour Declaration both the Arabs and Zionists 'believed Palestine had been promised to them', so already there were issues with the British policies. After the Second World War, Palestine was chartered as a British Mandate. Then the circumstances drastically shifted when a flood of European Jews were entering Palestine from Nazi Germany. The British were perplexed as to what to do. Due to the British's responsibility of Palestine and cultivating sympathy to the persecuted European Jews, there was increased pressure to permit Jewish immigration into Palestine. On the other hand the White Paper of 1939 had interrupted Jewish immigration into Palestine. The British were caught between two difficult choices. After careful debating the British abrogated the British mandate and 'handed over' the 'problem' to the UN. According to the U.S. Department of State in their article The Arab-Israeli war of 1948 ‘The United Nations resolution sparked conflict between Jewish and Arab groups within Palestine.’ The British didn't even make a choice, but simply cowered and withdrew from the conflict and there duty to Palestine. When the UN Partition plan was emplaced (handing over 55% of Palestine to the Jews), the Arabs rejected the plan. Once
As according to the North Carolina Civic Education Consortium in their article ‘Britain’s Broken Promises’ they claim that the ‘British are the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict’. The broken promises gave the Arabs and Israeli's belief that the land in Palestine was promised to themselves through the McMahon agreement and Balfour Declaration. The Arabs had a goal in mind through conforming to the McMahon agreement. It was to establish Palestine as an Arab state, but one thing was thwarting that from happening, the British promised the same land to the Jews. With 'open' land, ready for grabs in Palestine both Zionists and Arab nationalists were prepared to fight for what 'belonged' to them and so discrimination hit an upmost high amongst the Arabs and Israeli's and fore shared in the consequences of the White paper. The British then decided to commission the White paper, under strong Arab pressure to hopefully content the Arabs, but illogical attempts to form a healthy relationship between both the Jews and Arabs instead antagonised the Palestinians and killed many Jews. For many people this could represent the ultimate level of a charlatan disposition, promising two conflicting entities the same thing, but the British had done even more to fuel the conflict. The infamous White Paper simply prohibited copious amounts of Jewish immigrants to Palestine during