In 1920 Palestine became a League of Nations mandate administered by Britain.

1920年巴勒斯坦变成一个受英国管理的国际委任联盟。

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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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Britain granted independence to the eastern part of Mandate Palestine (now Jordan) in 1946.

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The decision was a defeat for the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency, established during the period of Britain's Mandate Palestine to promote Jewish immigration and settlement there.

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

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