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“The British were slated to withdraw from Palestine in May 1948, and both sides prepared for that day. Violence between Arabs and Jews, already endemic, escalated.”

  • UPSC 2020
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

The end of the British Mandate over Palestine on 14-15 May 1948 was not a clean handover but the culmination of decades of contradictory British promises, followed by a year of undeclared civil war between Arabs and Jews.

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  • The Collapse of the Mandate
  • The Civil War Phase, 1947-48
  • The Declaration of Israel and the Interstate War
  • Assessing the British Role

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