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Discusses the immigration of European Jews to Palestine and their acquisition of land through purchase, the establishment of the British Mandate following the defeat of the Ottomans in the First World War, and the burgeoning nationalist consciousness of the Arab population.

The original version of this chapter was revised: Final corrections have been incorporated. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49920-8_12

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Freas, E. (2017). Early Contestations. In: Nationalism and the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49920-8_4

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