ational home for the Jewish people" (Ben-Gurion, 1969). Now no British or European resources were actually committed to actualizing Balfour; the letter also articulated concern that the rights of non-Jews would not be penalized. In any case, relatively few Jews actually migrated to British Palestine, and Jews and Arabs lived more or less in a state of mutual tolerance there after 1917. There were, of course, exceptions. David Ben-Gurion, who was to become Israel's first prime minister, migrated permanently to Palestine in 1920 and led the Israel Workers Party (Mapai) in advocacy of a socialist Zionism under Mandate purview and in a context of assimilation of Arab political parties into the Yishuv, the name given to the growing Jewish community there. Revisionist Zionists were more radical, opposing conciliation with either the British or the Palestinian Arabs (Davidson, 1996). During the Mandate period, Zionists appear to have sought entry into Arab institutions and society at various levels. The P
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