In a bid to appease Hamas's jihadist precursors, in 1939 Britain's Mandatory authorities broke international law and prohibited Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine.

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Richard Meinertzhagen, who served as an intelligence officer in wartime and post-World War I Mandatory Palestine, made this point clearly in his memoir Middle East Diary.

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But even if they are overcome, this redivision of mandatory Palestine will leave a large number of Arabs who identify with the new Palestinian state living inside Israel itself.

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