Which of the following statements explains one reason why tensions increased between Great Britain and Palestinian Arabs after t
he end of World War I? A. The British refused to allow Palestinian Arabs to form an independent state unless over half their population was Jewish.
B. The British forced Palestinian Arabs to relocate to refugee camps to make room for Jews who were fleeing persecution.
C. The British claimed that Palestinian Arabs were similar enough to Jews that both groups formed only one nation.
D. The British supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine despite an earlier promise to grant Arabs in the colony independence.
The Palestinian militancy represents the ideas and people that constitute the armed struggle of the Arabs in Palestine since its conquest by the British Empire in 1917 during the First World War. Before that, the Palestinian Arabs were ruled by the Ottoman Empire. Until its conquest in 1917, the Palestine region did not even have defined borders.
The defeat of the Great Revolt essentially broke the militancy among the Arab people of the mandate during the following decade. In the Second World War the Palestinian Arabs did not try to make a serious attempt to revolt before the British, except for brief activities sponsored by Nazi Germany and the Grand Mufti. That situation existed while in Iraq the so-called Anglo-Iraqi War was happening, in which the anti-British prime minister Rashid Ali al-Gailani inflamed the Iraqi people against the British influence in their country (with the permission of a fatwa of the Grand Mufti) , and also when Arab officials in the Egyptian army conspired to help the Afrika Korps to defeat the British army in Egypt. Therefore, it is possible to say that the militancy of the Palestinian Arabs ended with the flight of the Grand Mufti, until the process of creation of the State of Israel in the years 1947-48. The activities of the Grand Mufti in that period included encouraging the Nazis to persecute the Jews both in Europe and in every country that fell under German military power.
