The majority of people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank think the best way to end the Arab-Israeli conflict is to create two states, according to a poll by Jerusalem Media & Communication Center. 55.2 per cent of respondents share this perception, up 2.2 points since November 2007. In contrast, 20.6 per cent of respondents think a better way to solve the conflict would be to have a bi-national state on all of historic Palestine. The former British mandate of Palestine was instituted at the end of World War I, to oversee a territory in the Middle East that formerly belonged to the Ottoman Empire. After the end of World War II and the Nazi holocaust, the Zionist movement succeeded in establishing an internationally recognized homeland. In November 1947, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the...
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