"Pre-WWII Jews were feeling pressure and blame for a number of societies problems. Inflation, poverty, and other fiscal woes were especially blamed on the generally hard working Jews."

Propoganda fueled by the Nazi party, before and during World War II.  All of the ills of the German public was directed at a particular business savvy religious group.  If I remember....the jews property were siezed and forcibly sent to work farms and "relocation camps."

"Israel and surrounding lands were under British rule (known as the mandate of Palestine) and the population was sparse and limited. There was a limited presence of Jews, Christians, Muslims and other (minority) religions. The land was hard and harsh after so many wars and most civilians had fled a century or more ago to less dangerous lands."

Brittish did NOT control all of the lands therein near Jerusalem, nor Israel as a whole, but the Brittish did have Colonial posts and controlled those posts through the Royal Armed Forces.  After World War II.  Many jewish survivors were once again, relocated by order of the military magistrate of europe, with the consent of the crown.  Those survivors were loaded onto ships and planes and sent to the middle-east.

What you failed to show is that every Colony of the brittish empire had it's native people segregated.  India is no longer one country but two, brought on by british law.  India and segregated Palestine (not to be confused with Israeli palestinians).  Same thing happened in Israel where the native palestinians were shoved to the side to make room for the Jewish "settlers" forcibly relocated there by the british empire.  The EXODUS came about from the other territories, because most european jews blamed the rest of the world for their predictament of enslavement and murder during world word II.  They didn't want to have anything to do with the new Europe.  This same europe was still realing from the German propoganda machine, because those occupied territories were told by german authorities that all french, italian, norwegian...all their ills were made by the jews.  Sadly quite a few countries were more than happy to see the jewish go, and it was pretty much due to propoganda during that time.  Many european governments still considered jews as a problem, instead of a solution to rebuilding after WWII.

The uprising as you called it, did occur.  But it was mullaj's, mujahdene, and radical islamists, turks, on horseback as calvary and muscket rifles against brittish aircraft, american tanks, and machine guns that held the day.

Your leaving a WHOLE slew of information and actual historical events out of this entire situation.  Personally I blame the brittish for the creation of the Israeli state and all the problems thereof.  But I also believe that all those middle-eastern kingdoms and countries would still be fighting over the land that Jeresalem stands on, even today.  Every middle eastern country has layed claimed to the land that the holy city stands on.  To every single country in that region it still represents the pinachle of relgious thoughts, teaching, and at the very outset, religious birth for much of the entirety of Europe, the America's, and northern Africa.  And to those governments, that's power.  To the people, it brings them closer to god.

Links!  Everyone start posting em here, because there's no other way you can prove your argument, so you're both left with "you're wrong," "no, you're wrong."

Palestine is englishified Hebrew (i.e. from the bible)  so yes the Arabs don't really have the word, but neither does english so your point there is a little invalid.

Your implied point that the state of Palestine is an artificial construct (and thus is invalid in your world view) is true (other than the invalid bit), and completely stated as so by the Palestinian government - but then in the same sense there is little difference in say NZ and Australia, or US and Canada, or Scotland and England. All speak the same language and share cultural values....

Truer words have never been spoken!  ^_^

British India is 5 countries: Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bangledesh and Myanmar

because they don't like each other

Oh wait Sri Lanka is the 6th

they didn't want to be separate

but everybody forgot them too