For that part you need to look back in history before 1948,
Start with king David hotel bombing. 1946.
There's a lot more to the story, but things are playing out in Israel just as the Bible said it always would be...
Genesis 16:12 - And he will be a wild man (Ishmael); his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
This is why Jesus said that He was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob...not Ishmael.
Here's another look at the overall picture of what was going on during the King David Hotel bombing according to history outlined by my A.I. assistant:
The opposition to British rule was driven by several overlapping grievances that intensified over the 1940s:
1. The White Paper of 1939
This was the single most important catalyst. Britain imposed strict caps on Jewish immigration (15,000 over five years, then only what Arab "economic absorptive capacity" allowed), restricted Jewish land purchases, and declared an intention to create an independent state with an
Arab majority within ten years. The Zionist leadership saw this as a direct betrayal of the
Balfour Declaration and the terms of the Mandate, which had promised a "national home for the Jewish people."
2. The Holocaust and blocked rescue
After WWII, hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps across Europe desperately wanted to reach Palestine. Britain continued to enforce its immigration restrictions and intercepted ships carrying Jewish refugees (most famously the
Exodus 1947, whose passengers were forcibly returned to Europe). This created what David Ben-Gurion called a situation "nourished by despair" — the groups argued that Britain was, by its inaction, complicit in the destruction of European Jewry.
3. A sense of betrayal after WWII cooperation
Tens of thousands of Jews had volunteered for the British army during the war, and the Haganah had cooperated closely with British security forces. The expectation was that this loyalty would be rewarded with a favorable postwar settlement. Instead, Britain maintained its restrictive policies, which the Yishuv experienced as a profound betrayal.
4. British repression of the Yishuv
The British response to Jewish resistance was heavy-handed: mass arrests of Jewish leaders, suspension of habeas corpus, military courts, death sentences, and raids on Jewish institutions. This turned much of the previously cooperative Jewish population against the Mandate authorities and pushed even moderate Zionists toward support for the insurgency.
5. The strategic logic of forcing withdrawal
The groups' core goal was not anti-British in a racial or ideological sense — their propaganda explicitly stated they had "no animosity toward the English people." Rather, they saw British rule as the
obstacle to Jewish statehood. Menachem Begin's strategy was to make Palestine a "glass house" — so unmanageable and internationally embarrassing for Britain that withdrawal became the only option. The insurgency was, in their framing, a war of liberation against a foreign occupying power that was blocking their right to self-determination.
In short, the combination of immigration restrictions, the Holocaust's aftermath, perceived betrayal, and British repression created a situation in which the Yishuv concluded that only force could remove the one power standing between them and an independent state.
