The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

On its arrival in Palestine the Commission shall proceed to carry out measures for the establishment of the frontiers of the Ar ...

During the transitional period no Jew shall be permitted to establish residence in the area of the proposed Arab State, and no A ...

The measures taken by the Commission, within the recommendations of the Gen- eral Assembly, shall become immediately effective u ...

gious communities or the rites of a religious community with respect to such places, buildings and sites. He shall receive full ...

Arabs residing in the area of the proposed Jewish State and Jews residing in the area of the proposed Arab State who have signed ...

E. ASSETS [The following section concerns the “equitable distribution” between the Arabs and Jews of the “movable assets” of the ...

between Jews and the British government. Zionist political leaders made plans to estab- lish the State of Israel upon Britain’s ...

the first country to do so. The Soviet Union followed suit two days later. Britain waited nearly eight months, until January 30, ...

In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and pea ...

State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East. WE APPEAL to the J ...

Israelis made the best use of the interval, essentially doubling the size of their forces and importing large quantities of weap ...

to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date”; ...

prospect some day for “permanent peace in Palestine.” Israel then signed similar UN- mediated armistice agreements with Lebanon ...

Nations Truce Commission by resolutions of the Security Council; upon such request to the Conciliation Commission by the Securit ...

Resolvesthat, pending agreement on more detailed arrangements among the Governments and authorities concerned, the freest possi ...

Status of Jerusalem DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT Until the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, most international diplomacy concerning Palestine assum ...

to be placed under a “permanent international regime,” by which it meant a special authority answerable to the UN’s Trusteeship ...

DOCUMENT Ben-Gurion Statement on the Status of Jerusalem DECEMBER13, 1949 One week ago today, in the name of the Government of I ...

The Suez Crisis DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT Israel lived in an uneasy neighborhood after its establishment in 1948. Egypt regularly sent ...

compressed into a seven-point agreement later known as the Protocol of Sévres, was signed on October 24, 1956, by Israeli prime ...