Creation of Israel

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Majority of Jewish people in Southwest Asia

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Israel

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Majority ethnic group around Israel

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Arabs

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Conflict over Palestine post-Ottoman Empire

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Jewish immigrants: "Promised Land"; Muslim Palestinians: already lived there

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Jewish settlements in Palestine (1947)

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small and scattered

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Arab reaction to U.N. partition plan

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Reject as unfair: Jews get more land, fewer inhabitants

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Winner of 1948 Arab-Israeli War

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Israeli Jews

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Law allowing Jewish immigration to Israel

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Law of Return

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British Mandate over Palestine

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Allowed Jewish Immigration

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Belief in Jewish homeland in Israel

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Zionists

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Jewish connection to Israel

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Promised land as part of Covenant with Abraham and God