Figure 6.: Israel and Palestine, 1923–1949. (A) Palestine, 1923. Following World War I, Britain controlled what was called Palestine and is now Israel and Jordan (Transjordan was the precursor to Jordan). (B) The UN Partition Plan, 1947. After World War II, the United Nations developed a plan for separate Jewish and Palestinian (Arab) states. (C) Israel, 1949. The Jewish settlers did not agree to the partition plan; instead, they fought and won a war, creating the state of Israel.

[Sources consulted: Colbert C. Held, Middle East Patterns—Places, Peoples, and Politics (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), p. 184; The Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 2002, Foundation for Middle East Peace, at http://www.firstpr.com.au/nations]