What happened in the 1930s when Jews went to Israel?

Answer 1

Answer 1

Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire during the first Wold War, Palestine became a British Mandate. The British classified the 800,000 inhabitants of Palestine according to religion: 650,000 Muslims, 80,000 Christians and 60,000 Jews.

During the following decades, Zionist organisations began to encourage Jewish migration to Palestine, and the purchase of farmland from the Palestinians.

In 1930, the Shaw Commission of Inquiry recommended limitation on Jewish Immigration and land purchase. The colonial secretary turned this into a government White Paper, but the Zionist leadership persuaded the British Prime minister to scrap the White Paper.

After a Jewish revolt in 1936, the Peel Commission of Inquiry recommended the annexation of most of Palestine to Transjordan, with a small portion of the land designated as a future Jewish state. The Stern Gang and the Palmach did all they could to drive the Palestinians out of the country.

From around 1939, the Yishuv undertook large-scale clandestine illegal immigration and land take-over in Palestine.

Answer 2

By the 1910s, the Zionists were well-organized and were able to effectively petition the British to declare His Majesty's intent to create a Jewish State in the southern Levant (where Israel is now). Jewish Settlers began to arrive in Mandatory Palestine and built an economy. The Zionists consistently reached out to Arabs during the Mandatory Period to create collective society. The Bedouins responded well, especially in the Galilee, as did the Druze. The Settled Arabs (who would become the Palestinians) did not wish to mix with the Zionists.

The Settled Arabs were quite adamant about not giving the Yishuv (Jewish Settlements in Palestine) any land or space as soon as it became clear in the late 1920s that the Jews intended and would soon realize their own state apparatus. They attacked the Yishuv in Hebron in 1929, scalping and beating many Jewish inhabitants. They organized militias to attack other Jewish settlements, they petitioned the British government to prevent Jewish immigration (resulting in the White Papers of 1939 which banned Jewish immigration during the entire Holocaust when a place of refuge was most necessary), and consistently fought against Jewish Militias who were targeting the British colonizers instead of uniting to overthrow the British before trying to decide a resolution. The Yishuv retaliated and the fights between the Palestinians and the Yishuv continued throughout the 1930s and 1940s relatively sporadically.