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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

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