British Mandate of Palestine

this essay is to compare and contrast the effects of the British and French colonial policies on the state formation at the Middle East after the World War One. The review of the process of creation of the mandate system and its consequences to the state formation in the area will be given at the beginning of the essay. Afterwards, the policies of both states will be analysed on two case studies of British mandate in Iraq and French mandate in Syria, including the comparison and contrast of…

lands from the indigenous Arab community. However, when the indigenous Palestinian people realized that larger numbers of settlers were entering the country and buying the land, they resisted to the migration seeing this move as a threat by the British administration. This brought about conflict over the years, resulting in violence and a large number of refugees as well as a continual diminished land partitions and access to the Holy sites, originally mapped by the 1947 United Nations (UN)…

right to self-determination as other peoples. During 1882 to 1914, the pogroms and anti-Semitic policies of tsarist Russia and Europe caused more than three million Jews to migrate westward, including the New World, Central or Western Europe, and Palestine (Hourani 558). In 1882, at the height of the pogroms, Leo Pinsker argued, in his book Autoemancipation, anti-Semitism was so deeply embedded in European society that no matter what the laws said about emancipation, Jews would never be treated…

the Muslims in Israel along with Lebanon and the U.S troops in Saudi Arabia. None of the arab countries trusted each other. Especially the leader of palestine, but they all wanted a piece of palestine so they fought for it in hopes that they would get it. To this day their have been many peace efforts to try and help things between israel and palestine, even remember those who fought and died. A good example of this is on Memorial Day their will be a Remembrance that is live online. Throughout…

That victory set the stage for the British Mandate in Palestine, which led to the November, 1947 UN partition plan and Israel's birth in May, 1948....battles still being waged....begun at Megiddo! In addition, Revelation 16: 16 earmarked Megiddo as an important location during the end times. Har-magedon…

passed to Russian Jews living in England. Two such Zionists, Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow, were instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration from Great Britain, which promised British support for the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The declaration was included in Britain’s League of Nations mandate over…

recover from the World War II. The active presence of a leader that could motivate people towards a common goal of unification and the creation of a new county was essential to the Jewish people. David Ben-Gurion, leader of the Jewish community of Palestine and first Israel’s prime minister, has been a relevant, strategic leader. His superior leadership capabilities coordinated strategies, helped to focus human and material resources to gain authority within the international community, which…

This allowed Middle Eastern states to tap into the lucrative international market. Accompanied by tax reforms, Middle Eastern states saw a rapid increase in wealth. This shift was largely affected by imperialism, whereby outside powers, such as the British in Egypt, would build infrastructure to promote efficient production. While European states promoted agricultural development, they tactfully discouraged advances in industry to maintain control over the region. Furthermore, while the region…

"occupied territory." The last binding international legal instrument which divided the territory of Israel, Judea, Samaria and Gaza was the League of Nations Mandate, which explicitly recognized the right of Jewish settlement in all territories allocated to the Jewish national home under the Balfour Declaration. These rights under the British Mandate were preserved by the successor organization to the League of Nations, the United Nations, under Article 49 in the UN Charter. 2 Until 1993 there…

Through the 19th and 20th century, countries have paved their ways to new growing influences, inspiring change all over the world, especially in Europe and the Middle East. From new, independent nations forming to nationalistic movements erupting in protest for political reform and more freedom, these two events stemmed from the same roots. In the 19th century, stimulated by the industrial revolution, European countries colonized Asia and Africa through their system of colonialism, the end of…