Answer these questions using the reference below:

1. What was the mandate system and what impact did it have on Zionist-Palestinian relations?

2. What settlement patterns emerged in Palestine under the British mandate and how did those patterns inform the UN resolution to partition Palestine into two separate states?

3. What is the historical significance of Atzmaut and al-Nakba?

Martin Bunton, The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 15-69. (textbook)