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British soldiers of the Parachute Regiment enforce a curfew on Albany Street (Tel Aviv, 1946 or 47).
Mandatory Palestine remained British after the Second World War, but there was little will amongst the military to remain there.
"Tommy, go home" declared one graffito on a wall in Jerusalem, referring to the nickname for British soldiers. "I wish I fucking well could," the reply written underneath it said.