The Zionist kept increasing pressure on the British to support the Zionist plan to create their own separate homeland. In the midst of WWI the British issued the Balfour Declaration thus gaining Britain's support for a creation of a new Jewish in Palestine without violating the rights of the Arabs living there.
The question is difficult to answer because there are two ways to read it. Based on those two readings, see the below two answers:
1) Why did Arabs and Jews fight in defense of the Jewish State of Israel? -- The Jews fought on behalf of a Jewish State for very obvious reasons, naturally somebody will fight for a nation that is being built to secure their rights and freedoms. Israel was to be, and did become, a Jewish State in the sense that it provides the Jewish People with the ability to govern and protect themselves. There were some Arabs who sided with the Jewish Militias during the War. Many of them did not actively engage in the fighting, but permitted Jewish Militias to rest or hide in their villages or supplied them. This is the case of Abu Ghosh. Others did actively assist Jewish Militias such as a few Bedouin tribes in the northern part of the Negev Desert. The reason these Arabs fought alongside the Jews was for several reasons, 1) The leaders of the Israel made it clear that Arabs that did not leave would be permitted to stay and these particular Arabs had no desire to leave. 2) They agreed with the values that the Jewish State intended to implement. 3) Some of them had very close Jewish friends.
2) Why did Arabs and Jews fight each other for control of the land now under Israeli jurisdiction? -- See the below related question for this answer.
This question needs to be clarified. I can read it two ways. A creation of a state or the creation of man. This needs a subject to answer.
The Arabs wanted a unitary independent Arab State to be created called Palestine and would refuse the creation of any Jewish State in the region.
Jewish Immigration to Palestine increased significantly, causing Arabs to worry about losing their land.
it became split between jews and arabs
it became split between jews and arabs
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The Arabs wanted a unitary independent Arab State to be created called Palestine and would refuse the creation of any Jewish State in the region.
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The Byzantine Romans left Palestine in 634 because it was conquered by the Arabs.
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