This Diaspora marked the birth of a dream harbored by Jews throughout the world that someday they would be able to return as a people to the promised land. At last. in 1917. their chance came. Britain consented to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. However. the Jews who immigrated to Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. to buy land and to create a new state. were regarded as unwanted outsiders by many of the Arabs. who had been living in this barren land since the days of Christ. Under the yoke of foreign oppressors themselves for centuries. these Arabs dreamed too of an independent Palestine. Increasingly. growing Arab nationalism and Zionism clashed. often violently.
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