PALESTINE (British Mandate) In the Promised Land Balfour. On Nov. 2, 1917, Mr. Arthur James Balfour, ... Land is sold over the Arab fellahs’ (peasants) heads by their rich brethren.

This declaration would become a central part of the British Mandate over Palestine. ... population in Palestine increased from 10 percent in 1917 to 30 percent in 1947 under the British Mandate.

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 ...

The British in Palestine Feb 23, 2024, 6:29 PM ... once they’d taken over Palestine. ... The British Mandate of Palestine ensued and by its end, ...

Britain’s official post-WWI administration of Palestine lasted from 1920-48 and is probably the UK colonial enterprise least addressed by its fiction filmmakers. But now prolific writer-director ...

British High Commissioner Arthur Wauchope, the governor-general of Mandate Palestine and the highest British authority there, delivered one of the opening speeches, expressing his belief in the ...

In the review of Oren Kessler’s “Palestine 1936” (Books, Feb. 11), Dominic Green presents two concepts of the book that are inherently flawed. First, Mr. Kessler argues that the Arab Revolt ...