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Factors Affecting the Situation In the Middle East.  

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1.In this essay I will attempt to argue why I feel Zionism is the most important cause of the setting up of Israel in 1948, even though there are many other important causes. Jews around the world wanted a Jewish country to escape anti-Semitism which was thrust upon them by people all over the world particularly in Europe and Russia. 'Let us be given sovereignty over part of the world big enough to satisfy the rightful needs of a nation' Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism Palestine was a British mandate, this allowed Britain to control national and international issues concerning Palestine, which allowed Britain to create the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration allowed large numbers of Jews the right to settle in Palestine and to create a national homeland there. Without this declaration, Jews might not have migrated to Palestine in such large numbers and Palestinians probably would have enough power to push...

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