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After the First World War, Palestine was mandated to Great Britain by the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles. Conflict between the Palestinian Jews and Arabs was minimal, mainly because there were only 55,000 Jews in Palestine in 1920. The burgeoning Zionist movement tried to promote Jewish immigration into Palestine, but immigration did not really accelerate until the Nazi takeover in Germany in the 1930s. By 1939, the Jewish population in Palestine reached 450,000, one-third of the total Palestinian population. The Jewish community in Palestine was more organized than the Arab community, with communal organizations exercising governmental functions; overall, the Jews had a higher degree of political and economic maturity than the Arabs. The British grant of considerable religious autonomy had the effect of splitting the Arab population into separate Muslim, Christian, and

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rprise and speed. The Egyptians would have to be defeated first, since they posed the greatest threat to Israel; the Syrians could be held in the rougher terrain of the north until after the Egyptians were defeated, while it was hoped that the more moderate Jordanian government would be reluctant to get involved in the fighting immediately. Recognizing that air superiority was essential, the Israelis would aim the first blow of the war at the Egyptian and Syrian air forces. The Israeli blow came on the morning of June 5, when the Israeli Air Force struck the Egyptian airfields and Israeli armor drove into the Sinai. By the end of that first day, most of the Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian air forces had been destroyed on the ground; within the first three days, the Israeli forces had taken the Gaza Strip, Sharm al-Sheikh, and nearly the entire Sinai Peninsula. The old city of Jerusalem had also fallen, along with all of the Jordanian territory on the west bank of the Jordan River. On June 9, the Israelis turned their attention to the Syrians. Rough terrain made for slower going than in the south, but the Syrians eventually gave way under fierce air attacks. On June 11, both sides agreed to a U.N. ceasefire proposal. O
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