Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, issued a declaration on behalf of his Government: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home ...

The Middle Eastern chessboard has been moving pieces for more than seven decades that always seem to return to the same point. Since UN Resolution 181, which in 1947 drew two squares (one Jewish and ...

This declaration would become a central part of the British Mandate over Palestine. Jewish migration to Palestine began to increase. After the war, the League of Nations — the predecessor of the ...

One of the key features of British rule was to play different groups against each other. One of the key methods adopted by them over the course ... historical sins in Palestine—and everywhere ...

the population in Palestine was 90% Muslim and Christian and 10% Jewish. The British Mandate of Palestine ensued and by its end, around thirty years later, the population was 50% Jewish.

The British Government today rejected the proposal that it surrender its twenty-year-old mandate over Palestine to the United States, in an acrimonious debate in the House of Lords raised by Lord ...

creating a criminalizing process that is still used as a major means of control over the indigenous Palestinian Arab population nearly a century later. Keywords: Palestine, Colonial Rule, British ...