![January 18, 1937 Monseignor Jajjar, the [Christian Arab] Archbishop of Galilee, testimony to the Royal (Peel) Commission](http://cojs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/peel-commission-485x315.jpg "January 18, 1937 Monseignor Jajjar, the [Christian Arab] Archbishop of Galilee, testimony to the Royal (Peel) Commission")
January 18, 1937 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel Monseignor Jajjar, the [Christian Arab] Archbishop of Galilee, testimony to the Royal (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: […]
May 26, 1937 British Restrict Jewish Immigration to Palestine There is some mystery regarding the policy which has governed Jewish immigration since the rebellion. In April 1936 the half-yearly labour quota was 4500. In November 1936 it sank to 1800, and in May 1937 it sank again to 770. The policy is supposed to be […]
July 1st, 1937 Arab Murder, Mayhem, and Massacre The ugliest element in the picture remains to be noted 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 […]
July 1st, 1937 Chaim Weizmann “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 right and […]
July 1st, 1937 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel Arabs Benefit from Zionism 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. […]
July 1st, 1937 British Restrict Land Transfer The Palestine Order in Council and, if necessary, the Mandate should be amended to permit of legislation empowering the High Commissioner TO PROHIBIT the transfer of land in any stated area to Jews, so that the obligation to safeguard the rights and position of the Arabs may be […]
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 population of 400,000 […]
July 1st, 1937 British Restrict Jewish Land Transfer “The Royal Commission of 1936, expressed their unanimous agreement with the general conclusions of earlier investigators on the land problem. They recommended that transfers of land from Arabs to Jews should be allowed only where it is possible to replace extensive by intensive cultivation, that is to […]
Britain and France put down unrest stirred in East and West by a Dream of Dominion London, Nov. 6—Europe has all but forgotten the story of those fearless horsemen with the new creed who swept from the deserts of Arabia thirteen centuries ago when most of the “civilized” Western World was in the grip of […]
“The Woodhead Commission of 1938 (e.g. the Partition Commission of 1938) possibilities of partition, confirmed the conclusions of the Royal (Peel) Commission that, with the existing standard of cultivation and capital resources of the fellaheen, the land in the hill districts of Palestine is already congested. They recommended that the greatest caution should be exercised […]