wikipedia Wrote:Following the birth of political Zionism in 1897 and its acceptance by the British Balfour Declaration, the League of Nations adopted the British Mandate of Palestine after World War I, which was "in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine..." In November 1947 United Nations decided on partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Partition was accepted by Zionist leaders and rejected by Arab leaders; the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine immediately followed that decision. On May 14, 1948, with the British mandate ending, the Jewish National Council declared Israel independent; the neighboring Arab states attacked the next day. Israel successfully defended its independence and as a result of the war, gained control of areas beyond those in the UN Partition Plan. Since then, Israel has fought a series of wars with neighboring Arab states, and in consequence, Israel controls territories beyond those delineated in the 1949 Armistice Agreements and some international borders remain in dispute.
Due to a British mandate?
Israel controls territories beyond those delineated in the 1949 Armistice Agreements?
