The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

is farthest from any thought of colonization and has no political ambition in our coun- try, we will seek the technical and econ ...

A Jewish National Home DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT Few twentieth-century documents concerning the Middle East have had consequences as m ...

opposed Britain’s plans to issue the declaration but relented after an appeal to the White House by Louis Brandeis, one of the c ...

“His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use ...

(including the territory east of the Jordan River that later became Transjordan) and Iraq (defined as the three Ottoman-era prov ...

efforts at controlling or containing the situation merely heightened tensions. After the end of World War II, London, searching ...

having been previously agreed upon by the Members of the League, shall be explicitly defined by the Council of the League of Nat ...

Article 8 The privileges and immunities of foreigners, including the benefits of consular jurisdiction and protection as formerl ...

Article 13 All responsibility in connection with the Holy Places and religious buildings or sites in Palestine, including that o ...

Nothing in this article shall preclude the Administration of Palestine from contributing to the cost of the maintenance of the f ...

Any person who, having discovered an antiquity without being furnished with the authorization referred to in paragraph 5, report ...

Article 26 The Mandatory agrees that, if any dispute whatever should arise between the Mandatory and another Member of the Leagu ...

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CHAPTER 2 Arabs and Israelis CHAPTER 2 DOCUMENTS Overview 37 Part I: Mandate Palestine and Israel, 1917–1948 The Peel Commission ...

36 ARABS AND ISRAELIS June 1967 Arab-Israeli War 94 Document: Nasser Addressing the National Assembly 98 Document: Abba Eban’s S ...

CHAPTER 2 Overview F or many Jews, the establishment of the State of Israel was the symbolic build- ing of a “third temple” in J ...

38 ARABS AND ISRAELIS contained (though with difficulty) by the British, who after World War I exercised neocolonial powers over ...

attacks and competition for water resources, Arab armies massed on Israel’s borders in early June 1967. Israel attacked on June ...

ident Jimmy Carter before Egypt and Israel could settle their differences. Carter invited Begin and Sadat to Camp David, the pre ...

Clinton tried in July 2000 to replicate Carter’s success at Camp David, this time by attempting to force Israeli and PLO officia ...