[In response to the Peel Commission’s recommendation of partition of Palestine], “In Damascus, 400 Arabs, representing all the Arab States as well as Palestine itself, resolved that Palestine was ‘an integral part of the Arab homeland,’ and insisted that Britain had to choose ‘between our friendship and the Jews.’” Source: 29, pp. 88-89
“The Jews on the other hand are a minority of intruders, who before the War had no great standing in this country, and whose political connection therewith had been severed for almost 2,000 years. It is impossible to find either in logic or by the establishment of a so-called Jewish national home” Source: Arab Higher […]
Monseignor Jajjar, the [Arab] Archbishop of Galilee, speaking before the Peel Commission: “When the Jews become the majority in the country they will dominate, and when they reach that standing, they will be acting contrary to the Koran which says: ‘They have been stricken with misery until the day of Resurrection.’… Judaism looks at this […]
The Peel Commission issues its report. It proposes dividing Palestine into a small Jewish state (comprising Galilee, the Jezreel Valley and part of the coastal plain, as far as Be’er Toviya), and Arab state (including most of the rest of Palestine) and a British-controlled corridor leading from Jaffa to Jerusalem. The Jews are split over […]
Sir George Rendal advisor to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden “We must reassure the Arabs that whey will no longer be in danger of becoming a minority in their own country or of finding practically its only fertile portions taken over from them and handed over in full sovereignty to alien immigrants.” Source: Sir Martin Gilbert: […]
The Peel Commission “In so far as immigration has been the major factor in bringing the Jewish national home to its present stage of development, THE MANDATORY HAS FULLY IMPLEMENTED HIS OBLIGATION TO FACILITATE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL HOME FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN PALESTINE, as is evidence by the existence of a Jewish […]
“The Arab population shows a remarkable increase since 1920, and it has had some share in the increased prosperity of Palestine. Many Arab landowners have benefited from the sale of land the profitable investment of the purchase money. The fellaheen are better off on the whole than they were in 1920. This Arab progress has […]
The Royal (Peel) Commission here characterize the Palestine government’s policy as having “from first to last been conciliatory (e.g. To the Arabs),” and that: “If one thing stands out clear from the record of the Mandatory administration, it is the leniency with which Arab political agitation, even when carried to the point of violence and […]
Chaim Weizmann – First President of Israel “Our historical rights to the country can only be realized side by side with the Arab population. I trust that cooperation will convince them that we are not coming in the spirit of Prussian Junkers, but in the spirit of those serving a sacred national ideal, to whom […]
“Arab nationalism in Palestine has not escaped infection with the foul disease which has so often defiled the cause of nationalism in other lands. Acts of “terrorism” in various parts of the country have long been only too familiar reading in the newspapers. As in Ireland in the worst days after the war (WWI) or […]