Perhaps the first failure occurred in the 1920’s, when the British Mandatory government in Palestine encouraged the two national communities – Jewish and Arab – to establish communal institutions of self-government to look after education, welfare, housing, and local administration.
第一次的失败也许发生在二十世纪二十年代。当时在巴勒斯坦的英国托管政府鼓励两个民族共同体犹太人和阿拉伯人建立共同的自治政府机构来处理教育、福利、住房和地方管理事务。