By then, Britain had run Palestine for more than 20 years, having captured it from the Turks in 1917 and accepted a League of Nations mandate to govern the country and help the Jews establish a national home.

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In 1923, Britain began to govern Palestine under a mandate from the League of Nations.

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That agreement was superceded by another which established a mandate system of French and British control, sanctioned by the new League of Nations.

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