The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

The Peel Commission DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT Great Britain administered Palestine for more than thirty years, between its capture of ...

Zionist leaders in Britain and the United States immediately launched an intense campaign against the Passfield policies, notabl ...

In London, yet another examination of the situation led the British government to switch its policy once again. Another panel, t ...

DOCUMENT Official Summary of the Palestine Royal Commission JULY7, 1937 [Parts I and II of the Official Summary discuss the anci ...

Meanwhile, the Government of Palestine, which is at present an unsuitable form for governing educated Arabs and democratic Jews, ...

be self-governing in matters such as immigration, land sales, and social services. Chapter XXII reviews specific elements of the ...

To both Arabs and Jews Partition offers a prospect—and there is none in any other policy—of obtaining the inestimable boon of pe ...

century but quickly faded. Aside from the brief experiment of the United Arab Republic—consisting of Egypt and Syria from 1958 t ...

2002, Arab League leaders adopted a plan articulated by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdallah pledging to establish “normal relat ...

ARTICLE III The League shall possess a Council composed of the representatives of the member- states of the League; each state s ...

ARTICLE VI In case of aggression or threat of aggression by one state against a member-state, the state which has been attacked ...

ARTICLE XII The League shall have a permanent Secretariat-General which shall consist of a Secretary-General, Assistant Secretar ...

ARTICLE XVII Each member-state of the League shall deposit with the Secretariat-General one copy of treaty or agreement conclude ...

However, even though she was as yet unable to control her own affairs, the Covenant of the League (of Nations) in 1919 made prov ...

The Partition of Palestine DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT In some respects, World War II produced a temporary respite in the growing confli ...

Zionist leaders in Palestine reacted angrily to Britain’s stance, which they saw as more backtracking on the Balfour Declaration ...

pressure the British government, in August 1945, to allow 100,000 displaced Euro- pean Jews to emigrate to Palestine. London reb ...

League, founded with British support just two years earlier, threatened war if the Gen- eral Assembly adopted either proposal (T ...

Having received and examinedthe report of the Special Committee (document A/364)^1 including a number of unanimous recommendatio ...

[At its hundred and twenty-eighth plenary meeting on 29 November 1947 the Gen- eral Assembly, in accordance with the terms of th ...