On April 4, 1920, a crowd from Hebron and Nablus, associated with the annual Muslim Nebi Musa pilgrimage that had taken place two days earlier, assembled near the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. ( The Nebi Musa pilgrimage commemorated the supposed carrying of Moses’ body, by a Bedouin, to a grave across […]
Winston Churchill:“If, as may well happen, there should be created in our lifetime by the banks of the Jordan a Jewish State under the protection of the British Crown, which might comprise three or four millions of Jews, an event would have occurred in the history of the world which would, from every point of […]
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandies “The work of the great Theodor Herzl as completed at San Remo. (e.g. April 1920)The effort to acquire the public recognition of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine for which he lived and died has been crowned with success. The nations of the world have done all that they could do. […]
“On October 25, 1919, Churchill wrote a memorandum for the cabinet proposing that the Ottoman Empire should not be divided among the victorious powers, but preserved intact, and placed under the authority of the League of Nations. Such a plan would bring an end to the British Mandate in Palestine, and would lead to the […]
Source: Treaty With Poland Treaty of Peace between The United States of America, The British Empire, France, Italy , Japan, and Poland signed at Versailles on June 28th, 1919 pages 11-13
The Germans, even before the Versailles of Jewish Minorities in Poland Treaty was completed, were preparing to argue the case for minority rights to protect Germans living outside of Germany’s borders. After the rejection of proposals to include the protection of minorities within the Covenant of the League of Nations itself, the minority issue was […]
A Jewish State in Palestine The American understanding of the intent and purpose of the Balfour Declaration is clearly deducible from the following Outline of Tentative Report and Recommendations of the Intelligence Section of the American Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference, in accordance with instructions, for the President and the Plenipotentiaries, January 21, 1919. […]
A delegation of Muslim-Christian before the Key-Crane commission In Jerusalem, “It is impossible for us to make an understanding with them [Jews] or even to live them together… If the League of Nations will not listen to the appeal of the Arabs this country will become a river of blood.” Source: (quoting from the report […]
1917 Arab Participation in World War I and T.E. Lawrence (e.g. Lawrence of Arabia) of Arabia Lawrence of Arabia reported to a friend about an attack on a Turkish troop train, he wrote, “I hope this sounds the fun it is … It’s the most amateurishly Buffalo-Billy sort of performance,” and Arabia is a “foreign […]
