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C. In the 1947 UN resolution that created Israel, the West Bank was supposed to be part of an Arab Palestinian state. Arabs opposed the partition, and Jordan captured the West Bank in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
D. About 400,000 Israelis live in settlements built in the West Bank. There are about 4.6 million Palestinian refugees who claim a right to return to Israel. Both Israelis and Palestinians want Jerusalem as their capital.
B. At times, European Jews were expelled from England and Spain, attacked by Crusaders, driven out by pogroms and murdered in the Holocaust. For hundreds of years, Muslim countries were far more welcoming to Jews than Christian countries.
A. Britain's foreign secretary said in 1917 that his nation backed "a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. Britain controlled Palestine until 1947 when the UN voted to divide the land between Arabs and Jews.