The Turks defeated, the British ruled Palestine as a military authority from 1917 until 1922. Then the League of Nations awarded Britain the Mandate to govern Palestine and prepare its citizens for self-government. From that moment, Jewish immigration from Europe increased phenomenally, with the British Cabinet pledged rigorously to honour Balfour's promise of a Jewish homeland, as it was interpreted by the Zionists.
Already during the 1930s, the displacement of the Arab population began
The Arabs of Palestine, not even referred to by name in Balfour's document, were increasingly angry at what they feared would be their eventual replacement and domination by an alien, inspired and technologically superior people of different religion.
Bloody inter-communal rioting broke out during the 1920s, the most notorious example perhaps being the massacres of some 60 religious Jews in the town of Hebron, about 20 miles south west of Jerusalem.
The situation intensified in the 1930s as Nazism spread across Europe, bringing more persecution and more and even more sophisticated and determined Jews to Palestine.
Van BBC.co.uk
Al vanaf de jaren 20 was er geweld en langs beide zijden, joodse verzetgroepen vowhten tegen joden, britten en arabieren, arabische verzetgroepen tegen joden , arabieren en britten het werd zo erg dat de britten het uiteindelijk opgaven en aan de VS overlieten.