Secretary of State for the Colonies, Winston Churchill to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George “We consider it necessary immediately to occupy militarily Transjordania… as we cannot contemplate hostilities with Abdullah in any circumstances, there is no alternative to this policy. We must therefore proceed in co-operation and accord with him… Abdullah with best will […]
“For all the above reasons, we ask in the name of justice and right that— FIRST: The principle of a National Home for the Jews be abolished. SECOND: A National Government be created, which shall be responsible to a Parliament elected by the Palestinian people who existed in Palestine before the War. THIRD: A stop […]
Lawrence of Arabia in a letter to his friend Robert Graves: “… So, as I say, I got all I want [for other people (e.g. For the Arabs)] – the Churchill solution exceeded my one-time hopes and quitted the game. Whether the Arab national spirit is permanent and dour enough to make itself into a […]
“On March 1st, I (King Abdullah) left Maan by train for Amman. I then received a note from Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner, inviting me to Jerusalem to meet the British Secretary of State for the Colonies (e.g. Winston Churchill). I accepted the invitation, and the date was fixed. The meeting took place as […]
Winston Churchill, King Abdullah and High Commissioner Herbert Samuel at the Jerusalem Conference on March 28th, 1921: Source: Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2013
“The Secretary of State of the United States (e.g. Charles Evans Hughes) received influential Moslem and Jewish deputations, and assured them both that there would be no change in the declared policy of His Majesty’s Government. The Balfour Declaration contained declared policy of His Majesty’s Government. The Balfour Declaration contained two distinct promises, one to […]
In an urgent letter to the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office explained that article 25 (of the Palestine Mandate) had been framed in such a way as to enable Britain “to set up an Arab administration and to withhold indefinitely the application of those clauses of the Mandate which relate to the establishment of the […]
Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies “I created Transjordan with the stroke of a pen on a Sunday afternoon in Cairo” Source: O Jerusalem!, Lapierre Collins, Simon & Schuster (1972) ; Gelvin, James L. The Israel-Palestine Conflict; One Hundred Years of War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Trans Jordan is Created and the Palestine Mandate is Reduced by 75% to 10,000 square miles “The outstanding question to be discussed (at the Cairo conference) was the policy to be adopted with regard to Trans-Jordania, and its effect upon the strength of the imperial garrison in Palestine. The conference recommended that Trans-Jordania should be […]
Winston Churchill, Secretary of the State for the Colonies, in keeping with Britain’s ‘economy with honor’ policy towards the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, had sponsored and chaired a conference at Cairo on 12th march 1921, to draw up a blueprint for an imperial policy to be adopted for the ‘Arab rectangle’. The Cairo […]