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| g. Palestine and Israel | |
| 1946, May 1 | |
| Report of the Anglo-American Commission. The committee called for the admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees and the creation of a single Arab-Jewish state under the trusteeship of the UN. | 1 |
| July 22 | |
| Zionist terrorists blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed British headquarters. | 2 |
| Oct. 4 | |
| U.S. president Harry S. Truman announced American support for the partition of Palestine. The American position doomed all attempts to construct a binational state. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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