“The Secretary of State 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 the Jews and one to the Arabs of […]
March 20, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill The Palestine Mandate is Reduced by 75% Winston Churchill: “I created Transjordan with the stroke of a pen on a Sunday Afternoon in Cairo” Source: O Jerusalem!, Lapierre Collins, Simon & Schuster (1972) March 21th, 1921: The Shame of Winston Churchill The Palestine Mandate is Reduced by […]
“The Conference recommended that Trans-Jordania should be constituted an Arab province of Palestine under an Arab governor, responsible to the High Commissioner. On this assumption they recommended the immediate military occupation of Trans-Jordania, without which they understood that it would be impossible to secure a settled government there or to stop anti-French action initiated in […]
In his later years, he liked to boast that in 1921 he created the British mandate of Trans-Jordan, the incarnation of what still is the kingdom of Jordan, “with the stroke of a pen, one Sunday afternoon in Cairo.” Source: “Borderlines and Borderlands,” (pg 189) edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen The Palestine […]
The British Partition of Ireland The six northeastern counties of Ireland are partitioned to create northern Ireland (Protestant). While the larger portion becomes The Republic of Ireland (Catholic)
December 1920 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel “Palestine, the Holy Land, belongs to the Christian and Moslem worlds and the administration of its affairs should not be entrusted to non-Moslems and non-Christians.” Source: Esco Foundation for Palestine. Palestine, A Study of Jewish, Arab, and British Policies, New Haven: Yale University […]
So far as the Arabs are a great, interesting, and attractive race I hope they will remember that . . . the great powers, and among all the great powers most especially Great Britain, has freed them, the Arab race, from the tyranny of their brutal conqueror, who had kept them under his heel for […]
Headquarters: Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (South) Jerusalem
The San Remo Conference resulted in the signing of the Peace Treaty with Turkey, dividing the former Ottoman Empire. “The Mandatory will be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on the 2nd November, 1917, by the British Government and adopted by the other Allied Powers in favour of the establishment in Palestine […]
