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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Some six months earlier in November 1947 the UN voted for the partition of Palestine under British Mandate into two states, one Arab and one Jewish.

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Israel didn't yet exist, six million European Jews hadn't yet ceased to exist, and the local relevance of distant Palestine (under British mandate since the 1918 dissolution by the victorious Allies of the last far-flung provinces of the defunct Ottoman Empire) was a mystery to me.

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As Mr Arafat's increasingly inflexible people point out, a return to the 1967 line would still mean a Palestinian state on only 22% of the Palestine covered by the British mandate.

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