The Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine

After World War 2 the British government was faced with an acute dilemma in Palestine between the demands of the Jews and the Arabs. The Jews sought the immediate establishment of a Jewish State, while the Higher Arab Executive urged the need to curb further Jewish immigration and threatened armed resistance to any attempt to fulfil Jewish demands. In a last endeavour to find a political solution which might satisfy both Arabs and Jews while safeguarding its own interests, the British government held an Arab-Jewish Conference in 1946, with the active participation of the Arab League states. But the conference failed to achieve agreement, and the British government announced its decision to withdraw from…