July 2, 1919 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel The Syrian Arab Congress attended by Arabs from the southern parts of the country, i.e. Palestine, had already laid down what was to be the permanent Palestinian Arab point of view, in the two following resolutions: We reject the claims of the […]
“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 […]
1920 Theodore Herzl 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 […]
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 […]
April 4, 1920 Arab Murder, Mayhem, and Massacre Nebi Mussa Riots in Jerusalem 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 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 “The Mandatory will be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on the 2nd November, 1917, by the British Government and adopted by the other Allied Powers in favour of the establishment in Palestine […]
June 30, 1920 The Palestine Mandate Headquarters: Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (South) Jerusalem
Anonymus: Incipit Libellus descriptionis Terrae Sanctae et peregrination ipsius (Marcelino da Civezza). Le Missioni Francescane in Palestina. Firenze 1894, 1895. (1894) 4-10, 65-71, 188-201, 517, 577-585, 641-650, 707-710. (1895) 63-71. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography.
“The Christian pilgrim John Poloner described Jerusalem: ‘The Gate of the Street of Jews, which gate looks out of the city to the southward… Seventy-six paces from the aforesaid gate the street of the synagogue of the Jews extends for two hundred and thirty-seven paces up to the entrance to the covered streets. From this […]
