In 1917 the British issued the Balfour declaration, in which they supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The League of Nations confirmed a British Mandate on Palestine, after World War I, based on the British pledge to establish a Jewish homeland. In 1920 the first riots took place in Palestine in Jaffa against Jewish immigration. With the rise in power of the Nazis in Germany Jewish immigration to Palestine increased, the Arabs of Palestine objected and began a revolt against British control. The British first suggested the Peel Plan that would have created a very small Jewish states and a much larger Arab state. The Jews accepted but the Arabs turned it down. Soon after the British issued the "White Paper" limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine.
