Origins of the Conflict and the Creation of Israel

The origins of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the creation of Israel. The legacy of the Ottoman collapse and the British Mandate in Palestine; the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism; the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish migration and international sympathy; the 1947 UN Partition Plan; the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the first Arab–Israeli war (the War of Independence / Nakba); and the origins of the Palestinian refugee question.