The Triangle

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The Triangle

• The Jews, the Arabs and the British in Palestine
  between the two World Wars
• 1919-1939

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The Zionist demand 1919
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The dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire
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League of Nations The Mandate for Palestine,
July 24, 1922

• the Mandatory should be responsible for putting
  into effect the declaration originally made on
  November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His
  Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said
  Powers, in favour of the establishment in
  Palestine of a national home for the Jewish
  people, it being clearly understood that nothing
  should be done which might prejudice the civil
  and religious rights of existing non-Jewish
  communities in Palestine, or the rights and
  political status enjoyed by Jews in any other
  country and
• Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the
  historical connection of the Jewish people with
  Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting
  their national home in that country
• Article 6.
• The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring
  that the rights and position of other sections of
  the population are not prejudiced, shall
  facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable
  conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation
  with the Jewish agency close settlement by Jews,
  on the land, including State lands and waste
  lands not required for public purposes.

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Palestine according to British Mandate
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Happy start

• Hussein McMahon correspondence 1915 promise
  independent Arabia to the Hashemite dynasty
• Balfour declaration 1917 promise a national home
  to the Zionist
• Weizmann Feisal treaty 1919 assures the
  collaboration of the two national movement to the
  development of the Arab State and Palestine (free
  Jewish immigration and settlement). Feisal
  attached a remark on the Arab version
• The San Remo meeting of the League of Nations
  (1920) agreed that the Mandatory should be
  responsible for putting into effect the Balfour
  declaration

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The basic model
Implementation commission
inquiry commission
The British
New British policy for Jewish immigration and
land purchase (White Paper)
The Arabs
The Jews
Immigration wave
Riots
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The main figures
Haj Amin al-Husseini (1893-1974) Leader of the
Palestinian national movement 1921-1949
Sir Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) First British
High commissioner for Palestine 1920-1025
Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) President of Zionist
organization 1920-1946
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First round the early Twenties

• Third Aliyah 1919 - 1923
• Nabi Musa Riots in Jerusalem - 1920
• May Riots in Jaffa - 1921
• Haycraft Commission 1921
• Churchill white Paper 1922 restricting the
  Jewish National home to the west of the Jordan
  limiting immigration to economic capacity.

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Transjordan detached from Palestine and given to
Emir Abdullah
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Second round the end of the Twenties

• The Fourth Aliyah 1924 - 1926
• The Disturbances of 1929
• Shaw Commission 1929
• Hope-Simpson Report
• Passfield White Paper 1930
• MacDonald Letter 1931

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The third round the Thirties

• The Fifth Aliyah 1933-1939
• Arab Revolt 1936 - 1939
• Peel Commission 1937 first partition suggestion
• Woodhead Commission 1938
• London round table conference
• The MacDonald White Paper 1939

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Peel commission partition map - 1937
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Woodhead Commission maps
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Examples of questions for mid-term

• When World War 1 break out, Palestine was under
• British control.
• Ottoman Control
• Arab Control.
• Jewish control.
• Arrange these events from the earlier to the
  later
• The founding of the Hagana.
• The Sykes-Picot Agreement.
• The Peel Committee of Inquiry
• World War II
• The First Zionist congress.
• Explain three of the following terms (Who, When,
  Where. What). No more then five lines to each
  term
• A.D. Gordon Altneuland