The Zionist goal of establishing a Jewish homeland has always been opposed by the Arab leaders in the Middle East. There was a rapid influx of Jews to Palestine from the time the Great War ended. As new immigrants, they purchased land to live and farm on, but then banned Arabs from living on that land. The Jews’ goal was to establish localities based around farming. Additionally, these communities would be for Jews only, meaning they would not hire any Arab employees. The Arabs in the Palestinian Mandate greatly resented this trend. The British sought to make peace between the Zionists and Arab nationalists in Palestine, but failed. Their Partition Commission Report, which proposed a two-state solution, had been declared impossible to implement.
