Palestine under the Mandate

1

• Palestine under the Mandate
• Diplomacy April 1920
• San Remo Mandate announced
• Reality
• Riots (Tel Hai, Nebi Mussa- 1920 Jaffa- 1921)
• Diplomacy June 1922
• 1922 White Paper (Economic Absorptive Capacity)
• Reality
• Hagana is formed. Al-Husseini appointed Mufti of
  Jerusalem. Clashes continue.
• Diplomacy July 1922
• League of Nations ratifies Mandate begins

2

• A Pattern is Formed
• A Situation
• Diplomatic Initiative
• (A Blunder)
• Reaction
• Diplomatic Remedy
• (another Blunder)
• Another reaction
• (angrier than before)

3

• World Economic Crisis of 1929
• 3rd and 4th waves of Jewish Immigration
• (120,000 in number)
• August 1929
• Riots in Jerusalem, Sefad and Hebron
• Hebron Massacre (60 Jews dead)
• Investigative Commission
• Sir Walter Shaw (March 1930)
• Sir John Hope-Simpson (October 1930)
• The 1930 White Paper (Passfield)
• McDonald Letter- February 1931
• 1932-1933 Riots in Jerusalem, Haifa, Galilee
• 1933 Hitler in Power. Persecution of Jews
• Fifth Wave of Jewish
  Immigration

4

• April 1936 The Arab High Committee
• May 1936 The Arab Rebellion Begins
• July 1937 The Peel Commission
• THE CONFLICT IS SET