But a more apt parallel may now be Palestine, where the British gave up holding the ring between Arab and Jew and left them to it.

然而现在更恰当的类比可能是巴勒斯坦，英国在那里放弃作为阿拉伯人和犹太人之间的联系的角色，并且交给他们自己处理。

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On 14 May 1948, before the expiring of the British Mandate of Palestine on midnight of the 15 May 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed.

年5月14日，以色列宣布成立。 同时英国对巴勒斯坦的管制也在1948 年5月15日的午夜结束。

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Thanks to an obsession with schooling that Israel inherited from the British Mandate governors, Arab literacy in Palestine had shot up since the start of the 20th century.

幸运的是，以色列继承了英国托管总督们痴迷办学的热情，因而自上世纪初开始，巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的文化水平得到了飞跃提升。

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The Turks defeated, the British ruled Palestine as a military authority from 1917 until 1922.

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The British took over Palestine and three Ottoman provinces of Mesopotamia and created modern-day Iraq.

NPR: The Middle East and the West: WWI and Beyond

The British Mandate for Palestine created Jordan as the country for the Palestinians.

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