The Arab-Jewish-British Conflict

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The Arab-Jewish-British Conflict

• Origins and development

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Main Issues

• Jews Free Immigration ? majority ? Sovereignty
• Arabs Maintaining majority ? Rights on the land
• British Balance and welfare

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Changing Attitudes

• Jews Recognizing Arab-Palestinian nationalism
  ?Abandoning belief in co-existence.
• Arabs Abandoning trust in the British
• British Retreating from the Jewish national Home

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Stages

• 1920 Jerusalem Disturbances
• 1921 Jaffa Riots
• 1929 Hebron Riots
• 1936 - The Arab revolt

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Optional Solutions

• Legislative Council
• Parity
• Cantons
• Bi-National State
• Partition

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PartitionPlan

• Peel Commission

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The Retreat from the National Home obligation

• The White Paper of May 1939
• Final limits to Aliyah
• 75,000 over 5 years
• Final limits to Jewish land purchase
• Outbreak of WWII September 1939