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Explained<ref>[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-brigade-group Jewish Brigade Group | Holocaust Encyclopedia]</ref>:
Explained:<ref>[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-brigade-group Jewish Brigade Group | Holocaust Encyclopedia]</ref>
<blockquote>Due to Arab opposition to the proposed Jewish homeland in Palestine, the British initially refused to establish a separate fighting unit of Jewish volunteers from Palestine. However, wartime manpower requirements and the strategic need to defend the Middle East induced the British to permit the formation of 15 Palestinian Jewish battalions. These units were incorporated into the British army in September 1940.
<blockquote>Due to Arab opposition to the proposed Jewish homeland in Palestine, the British initially refused to establish a separate fighting unit of Jewish volunteers from Palestine. However, wartime manpower requirements and the strategic need to defend the Middle East induced the British to permit the formation of 15 Palestinian Jewish battalions. These units were incorporated into the British army in September 1940.