During World War II, millions of Jews fled Germany to escape the brutality of Adolf Hitler. A Zionist movement established that all Jewish refugees should flee to Palestine, a concept founded by the Jewish state, by Dr. Theodore Herzl, in order to unite all Jews into one holy state. The British were convinced in 1917 by Chaim Weizmann that all Jews needed their own territory in Palestine, and in the early 1920s the League of Nations gave them a mandate over Palestine. Palestinians felt threatened by the growing presence of Jews in their state, sparking widespread fighting aimed at expelling Jews from Palestinian land sacred to the Arabs. Ben-Gurion (also known as a member of the World Zionist Congress) was the leader of the Jewish people in 1947, while there was not a single Arab leader, there were several influential figures to the cause: Haj Amin el-Husseini – grand mufti of Jerusalem, Azzam Pasha – secretary general of the Arab League, King Abdullah of Transjordan – the only leader open to an Arab-Jewish compromise, and Glubb Pasha – commander of the Arab Legion formed by the British. With the views of King Abdullah of Transjordan, there was talk of a compromise between the two, of which the Jews were in favor and the Arabs condemned. In 1947, the United Nations Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) ordered that Palestine be divided into two states: one Jewish and one Palestinian. The United States saw itself as a “world model” in this situation. For the UNSCOP order to be enacted would require a two-thirds majority vote of the General Assembly, to which the order was granted in a decision of thirty-three to thirteen ten, triggering an arms race between the now opposing states. The Zionists were lost at that time, ...... middle of paper ...... place. Jews and Arabs fought for sixty years over something as simple as the Jews' desire to become their own state after being forcibly expelled from Germany. To me, this looks like two siblings fighting because one entered the other's room without permission. I know it was a bigger deal than that, but it could have been resolved in a better way than fighting for sixty years, and that's just my opinion. “Oh, you want some of my territory?” Well, what is it about calling on outside forces to break you until you surrender? An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind, right? “Humanity must end war before war ends humanity. » –JFKWorks cited Stoessinger, John G. “The Fifty Years' War in the Holy Land: Israel and the Arabs.” » Why Nations Go to War, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2005. Print.