Cover

Front cover

Author

Preface

Chapter I

Introduction

Introduction cont.

Chapter II

Component Elements of the Conflict

Jewish Population

Jewish Population in Palestine from Roman Conquest

Jewish Population of the Holy Land Under Early Islamic Conquest and Occupation

Jewish Endeavours

Effect of Crusader Control of Holy Land on Jewish Settlement

Islamic Control Reasserted Over the Holy Land

Arab Population and Political Independence

Arab Cultural Characteristics

Tribal Influence in Islam and Islamic Religious Dogma

Dhimmititude

Pre 1967 Palestinian Arab Identity and Hopes for Political Independence

Economic Development in Palestine and Jewish Immigration Prior to 1918

Ottoman Land Reform Legislation 1858

“A land without a people for a people without a land”?

Chapter III

Political Developments Affecting Arab and Jewish Settlement in Palestine

Expansion of German Imperial Influence- World War I

Anglo-French Zones of Influence: Sykes– Picot

Emerging Arab Nationalism

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence

Exclusion of Palestine from Sherifian Hashemite Control

Syrian and other Arab Opposition to Sherifian Control

he Arab Revolt

British Recognition of Arab Claims: Sherifian Quid Pro Quo

4. Emerging Jewish Nationalism

a. Europe

b. Early British Support

5. The Impact of World War I on the Establishment of a Jewish Homeland

a. The British Political Establishment

b. Jewish Military Contributions to the British War Effort

c. Russian and American Jewry

d. British Jewish Anti-Zionists

e. The Balfour Declaration

British Military Opposition in Palestine to the Declaration

Chapter IV

The End of WW I: Competition for Control of Palestine.

1. The Claimants and their Interests
2. World War I Peace Process

a. Background Factors

b. The Paris Peace Conference 1920, Treaty of Versailles,

League of Nations and the Mandate Concept –January 10, 1920

i. Wilsonian Vision

ii. The Mandate Concept, League of Nations Covenant, Article 22
iii. Jewish – Zionist Aspirations
iv. Arab Interests - Potential Cooperation

c. Seeking Palestinian Opinion of the Mandate: King-Crane

Commission 1919

d. 1920: San Remo Conference, Treaty of Sevres and Franco-British

Boundaries Creating Syria, Iraq and Palestine

i. The Conference: Background and Public Reaction to its

Objectives

ii. The Conference and its Conclusions

iii. Treaty of Sevres, August 20, 1920 (Treaty of Lausanne)

iv Franco-British [Boundary] Convention December 23, 1920

e. The Creation of Trans-Jordan 1921-1922

f. The White Paper 1922

Chapter V

The Palestine Mandate – Applied

General Analysis and Observations

a. No Individual Standing to Challenge Palestine Legislation
as being contrary to the Mandate

b. Establishment of the Jewish National Home

c. Present and Future Non-Jewish Communities Political Rights

2. Conflict in the Implementation of the Mandate

a. Regulated Jewish Immigration

b. Unregulated Arab Migration

c. Land Settlement

i. Protection Accorded to Arab Held Land

iiProtection Afforded to “landless” Arabs

Unsubstantiated Arab Claims of Dispossession

Improper British Administrative Allocation of Public and Waste Land

Jewish Bulk Purchase of Land

iii. 1939 White Paper: Prohibition and Regulation of Land

Transfer to Jews
3. Impact of Jewish Immigration Land Sales on Arab Social Structure and Economy

4. British Obligation to Encourage Local Autonomy and Self Government Jewish Institutions

a. Political Representative Bodies

i. Jewish Self Defence Organisation

ii. Arab Institutions

b. Similarities and Contrasts in British Administration towards Arabs and Jews

i. Organisational Structure

ii. Disparity between Jewish and Arab Education
iii. Direct Arab-British Contact.
iv. Male Society.
v. Common and Dissimilar British and Arab Linguistic Traits.

Chapter VI

Arab Riots in Support of Independence and Opposition to Jewish Settlement

1. Overview of the Arab Riots: British and Palestine Government Response

2. Arab Rioting Phase I (1929-30)

a. The Jerusalem Easter Incident 1920; Jaffa Riots 1921
b. British Response: Haycroft Commission 1921

c. 1922 White Paper: British Appeasement and Capitulation

Arab Rioting Phase II: (1929-1930) Western Wall Incident and Hebron Massacre

a. The Trigger

b. British Response: Shaw Commission Findings and Recommendations

c. Hope Simpson Report on Implementing the Shaw Recommendations
d. Jewish and Others Response to the Findings and Recommendations

e. Resultant British Policy: The Passfield White Paper and its Retreat.

4. Phase III: The Arab Rebellion 1936-1939

a. The Trigger Incidents

b. Riots and General Strike

5. The Peel Royal Commission Enquiry: Partition as the Solution

a. The Terms of Reference

b. Findings

i. Arab Nationalism- Fear of Jewish Supremacy

ii. Jewish Success in Establishing a National Home

iii. Arab Unemployment and Cessation of Jewish Capital Inflow

iv. Poor British Administration

c. Commission’s Conclusions and their Contemporary Application

i. Arab Extremism

ii. Concentration of Personal Power in the Mufti

d. Commission's Recommendations

i. Rejection of Cantonization-Federal State

ii. Two State Solution

iii. Population Exchange

e. Political Institutional Reaction to the Peel Report

i. Jewish

ii. Palestinian Arab Leadership

iii. Saudis

iv. British House of Commons
v. British Civil Service

vi. Reaction in Palestine

f. Implementation of Peel Commissions Recommendations

i. More Research? Woodward Commission!

ii. More Talk? St. James' Conference!

10. 1939 MacDonald White Paper: British Retreat from the Mandate

a. Key Provisions

b. White Paper in Breach of Mandate Obligations: League of Nations Impotent

Chapter VII

Palestine Conflict During World War II

1. Contextual and General Overview

a. International Arena

b. The Middle East Arena

2. European Colonial Interests in the Middle East and Rising Arab Nationalism

a. Allied Containment of Italian and Nazi Expansion in the Middle East

b. Palestinian Participation in British Military Forces Efforts
c. Arab Leadership Interests During World War II

d. Conflicting French and British Interests in Syria

3. British Mid-Eastern Interests Played out in Palestine
Jewish Immigration Interests Sacrificed in Favour of Arab Nationalism .

a. The Evian Conference 1938

b. The Immigrant Ships

The Patria

Salvador and Darien II

The Struma

c. The Biltmore Resolutions, 1942

4. Intra Jewish Conflict in Palestine over Continuing Cooperation with British Administration

5. The United Jewish Struggle Against Britain (1945-1948)

a. In Palestine: Black Saturday then the King David Hotel

b. Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

c. Britain's Last Attempt at a Political Solution