British Mandate of Palestine

The process of Israel becoming a country began with the British mandate. The British mandate was a process that would declare the land of palestine as a safe haven for Jewish people. In 1947, the jewish settlements caused the Arabic natives to be moved to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. From 1948 to 1949, Israel was at war with the jews that had come into their country and fought to regain independence. This lead to Israel becoming a country after the war and being accepted by the United…

1. British Mandate British Mandate named as "Mandate for Palestine" was established in 1922 by the League of Nations. Its purpose was to manage non-self-governing regions such as Ottoman Empire sanjaks of Nablus, Acre, the Southern part of the Vilayet of Syria, the Southern portion of the Beirut Vilayet, and the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, prior to the Armistice of Mudros. But with the passage of time the government failed to apply this Mandate and the Britain declared the termination of this…

homeland will find a way to happen with the support of the British. Indeed, after having promised the Arabs throughout the region to create a great Arab nation, the British disown their promise and promote the establishment of the Jews in Palestine by the Balfour Declaration in 1917 (Cohen). Britain, which received the mandate over Palestine after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, promised the Zionist leaders the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews, provided they do not…

influx of Jews to Palestine from the time the Great War ended. As new immigrants, they purchased land to live and farm on, but then banned Arabs from living on that land. The Jews’ goal was to establish localities based around farming. Additionally, these communities would be for Jews only, meaning they would not hire any Arab employees. The Arabs in the Palestinian Mandate greatly resented this trend. The British sought to make peace between the Zionists and Arab nationalists in Palestine, but…

From that point on, women’s participation kept increasing against the British mandate. After the end of the First World War, women took part in huge demonstrations at the time of the Balfour Declaration. Four years later in 1921, Emilia As-Sakakini and Zalikha Ash-Shihabi established the first Palestinian Arab Women’s Union. The Union played an integral role in organizing protests and demonstrations against the British mandate and Zionist settlers. During the 1929 Western Wall riots, women took…

originally included in the agreement but then retreated due to the Russian revolution. The independent Arab state promised to Hussein was in this agreement designated as a state of confederation of states lying in the two zones of British and French indirect influence. Palestine was placed under international administration (cleaveland). Due to this, the Sykes- Picot agreement is seen as one of the most controversial documents of war, for it appears to overlap portions of the promise that…

The Arab – Israeli war was not only initiated by the Jews and the Arabs, but also the British that mandated Palestine for years. Rather than resolving the issue at hand the British decided to hand the issue over to United Nations, who had little to no clue about much of the issue. The United Nations viewing it as just any territorial dispute decided to resolve the issue, which rather than solving the issue caused a massive war and massacres. The Arab – Israeli conflict is not as difficult of an…

Joshua Riesenberg HIST-1493-010 Ms. Courtney Kennedy 4 December, 2015 A Song Heard Around the World “The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.” - Woodrow Wilson (1917) This is a story of freedom and home. One might expect any historical account of the Jewish people to be one of oppression and struggle, and for the most part that is true. However, one movement would not go…

29, 1947, to partition Palestine, then still under British mandate, into an Arab state and a Jewish state.” Though initially Arab guerilla forces, commanded by British officers were succeeding in capturing a number of settlements, including that of Jerusalem, by April the tide had turned and the Haganah seized the offensive and were recapturing areas. The day after the declaration of Israeli independence heavily supplied military forces from Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia…

future of the Middle East. After WWI, the League of Nations established the Mandate for Palestine. It included all the land that was Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (League of Nations, 1922). The 1917 Balfour Declaration supported the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, “Nothing shall be done to prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non Jewish communities in Palestine” (Balfour, 1917). This allowed for open Jewish immigration, freedom of…