Mandate: The Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939

✍ Scribed by Leslie Turnberg

• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The twenty years between the World Wars saw remarkable changes in the Middle East. In Palestine, Britain struggled to maintain its Mandatory Authority as Arabs and Jews fought not only each other but the British Government too. Failing to satisfy either side Britain was stuck in the middle, and separating the warring parties was a distraction they hardly needed. Here Turnberg explores why the British Government maintained its responsibilities under the Mandate at a time when they were suffering severe economic and social problems at home, and the threat of war with Germany. How was it possible for the Zionists’ dream of a homeland in Palestine to survive when they were faced by a Government regretting its commitments, exasperated by both Jewish demands and placating the Palestinian Arabs. The Jews were outnumbered ten to one by the Arabs, but they persisted and, as described here, survived. Events in the first twenty years of the Mandate turned out to be as important to the survival of the Jewish homeland as both the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the international revulsion at the horrors of the holocaust for the creation of the State of Israel.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Front Matter
Title page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Maps
Introduction
PART ONE
1 - Three Conflicting Legacies
2 - Peace Conference, Paris, 1919
3 - The Zionists’ Case
4 - Faisal in Paris: The Arab Case
5 - Two Conflicting Commissions
6 - San Remo and Geneva: Mandate Established, 1922
7 - Riots and Other Disasters, 1920-1925
8 - Palestinian and Parliamentary Opposition, 1922
9 - Herbert Samuel Takes Over: 1920-1925
10 - Churchill’s Lines in the Sand
11 - Rutenberg Electrifies Palestine
12 - Husseini and Jabotinsky
13 - Gathering Clouds: 1925-1929
14 - Commissions of Inquiry
15 - A ‘White’ Paper and a 'Black' Letter
PART TWO
16 - The Difficult Thirties
17 - Peace Movements and Frustrating Minority Sports
18 - Growing Instability
19 - Peel and Partition
20 - Woodhead’s Report, London Conference and a 'White Paper'
21 - CODA
Bibliography
Index