Why did the events of 1948 and 1967 lead to the creation of Palestinian refugee problem?

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Why did the events of 1948 and 1967 lead to the creation of Palestinian refugee problem?

After the First World War both the Arabs and the Jews were upset with the British after their promises to them, and how they contradicted each other. After the First World War the lands of the Turkish Empire were taken from the Turkish and given to the League of Nations. The League of Nations asked the British to control and govern Palestine and prepare the area for Independence. The land of Palestine was only under British control till it was thought that Palestine could govern the land well enough on their own. But also the Jews were handed to the British who were now to work with the Zionists to set up a national home for the Jews in Palestine. This was sure to create problems and tension between the Arabs and Jews as now they both wanted the land all for themselves, and the rivalry was bound to ignite between the two sides. There was bound to be some anger left in the Jews and Arabs toward the British after they had betrayed them during the war with the ownership of the land, and supporting both sides. But the main problem for the British was “what could they actually do?” They were apposed to the partition idea, as they were sure this wouldn’t work. This left them with very few ideas. The British were finding the area harder and harder to govern, there were often great out breaks of violence which would take long times to settle and calm. In 1939 the British decided to create a Palestinian state shared between the Arabs and the Jews and to stop Jewish immigration into Palestine. This was going to end up being terrible because during the Second World War just as Jewish immigration to Palestine was about to finish the persecution from the Nazi’s towards Jews was about to become very bad.

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The problem became too much for the British to keep controlled, they were unable to stop violence to them selves from some Jewish groups, and also the fear of a civil war between Jews and Arabs. In 1947 they handed the problem back to the United Nations as they were finding the whole thing just too difficult. The UN decided that they would introduce partition into the state to make it into two separate states, one Arab, one Jewish.  On the day the partition was to be put into action – 15th May 1948 – Israel was attacked by Arab ...

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