Editing Israeli–Palestinian conflict (section)

=== 1920s ===
With the creation of the [[British Mandate in Palestine]] after the end of the first world war, large-scale Jewish immigration began accompanied by the development of a separate Jewish-controlled sector of the economy supported by foreign capital.<ref>{{harvnb|Khalidi|2020|loc=Introduction}}: "Additionally, a separate Jewish-controlled sector of the economy was created through the exclusion of Arab labor from Jewish-owned firms under the slogan of "Avoda ivrit," Hebrew labor, and the injection of truly massive amounts of capital from abroad."</ref> The more ardent Zionist ideologues of the [[Second Aliyah]] would become the leaders of the [[Yishuv]] starting in the 1920s and believed in the separation of Jewish and Arab societies.{{sfn|Morris|2008|p=1}}

[[Amin al-Husseini]], appointed as [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem]] by the British [[High Commissioner]] [[Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel|Herbert Samuel]], immediately marked [[Zionism|Jewish national movement]] and [[Aliyah|Jewish immigration to Palestine]] as the sole enemy to his cause,<ref name="al-Husseini">{{harvnb|Sela|2002|p=361|loc="al-Husseini, Hajj (Muhammad) Amin"}}<blockquote>He [Husseini] incited and headed anti-Jewish riots in April 1920. ... He promoted the Muslim character of Jerusalem and ... injected a religious character into the struggle against [[Zionism]]. This was the backdrop to his agitation concerning Jewish rights at the Western (Wailing) Wall that led to the bloody riots of August 1929...[H]e was the chief organizer of the riots of 1936 and the rebellion from 1937, as well as of the mounting internal terror against Arab opponents.</blockquote></ref> initiating large-scale riots against the Jews as early as 1920 [[1920 Nebi Musa riots|in Jerusalem]] and in 1921 [[Jaffa riots|in Jaffa]]. Among the results of the violence was the establishment of the Jewish paramilitary force [[Haganah]]. In 1929, a series of violent [[1929 Palestine riots|riots]] resulted in the deaths of 133 Jews and 116 Arabs, with significant Jewish casualties in [[1929 Hebron massacre|Hebron]] and [[1929 Palestine riots#Safed massacre, 29 August|Safed]], and the evacuation of Jews from Hebron and Gaza.<ref name="SelaConflict">{{harvnb|Sela|2002|loc="Arab-Israel Conflict"|pp=58–121}}</ref>