The British were going to support the creation of a Jewish state. They didn't say it would be Israel yet, but they made that declaration in 1917. I'm not exactly why they did it. There are theorists that believe that this is the same time that the United States is kind of jumping into World War I and maybe to curry favor with the Wilson administration. Woodrow Wilson had some Zionists that were very close to him in his presidential cabinet and there are historians that have claimed that this could have been a move really to make a stronger alliance with the United States. But whatever it is, now that Zionism has been kind of put on a priority list by the British, Jews are going to start to flock to that area and Jewish numbers start popping up in the tens of thousands in Tel Aviv from World War I to World War II. And that doesn't mean that there wasn't resistance.