ABSTRACT
On 14 May 1948 a new entity appeared on the political map of the world the State of Israel. The history of the creation of the State of Israel was long and complex. The war and its outcome created historically unique preconditions for a successful resolution to the Jews' vigorous struggle for a sovereign state of their own in Palestine. During, and especially after the war, the Palestine problem was a central issue of Great Power rivalry in particular between the United States and Great Britain. In December 1945 an Anglo-American Committee was set up to investigate the situation in Palestine. It was entrusted with a wide range of tasks connected with the Palestine problem as a whole. It set up to study the Palestine question without the participation of the UN was not competent to discuss and tackle the Palestine problem without the participation of the parties directly concerned.
