Britain had stopped Jewish immigration to Palestine. After the Holocaust, there was more pressure on Britain to allow Jewish immigration to Palestine. In 1947, the United Nations partitioned the land into Arab and Jewish states. The Arabs refused to accept the partition. The Arabs still wanted to have all of Palestine, consisted of both east and west of the Jordan River (Contenderministries.org,n.d.). On May 14, 1948, the Palestinian Jews …show more content…
In the 1980s, Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) slowly moved away from their early ideological and uncompromising rejection of the existence of Israel. In November 1988, Arafat and the PLO officially agreed to end not only terrorism but all attacks on Israel, in the context of a compromise two-state political settlement that would create a largely demilitarized Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem