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The term that describes the nationalist movement that sought tocreate a nation-state for the Jewish people is ZIONISM.
A couple of reasons. As 1947 the year of Israel's creation, there was still a huge amount of world guilt as to the holocaust. So there was a huge united nations lobby for the creation of a Jewish homeland. The area had a significant Jewish population. The Jewish population protested, and rebelled against the British Palestinian police force.