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Why did the British leave Palestine?
Tired of being targeted by Jewish terrorist groups
Tired from a world war
- British soldiers wanted to go home
Tired of keeping the peace between Arabs and Jews
It was expensive
Encouraged by USA to create a Jewish state
A period of de-colonisation anyway
All compromise offers were rejected by Jews and/or by Arabs
- So the British handed the problem over to the United Nations