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Objective: Evaluate the Palestine Mandate by analyzing the different British Solutions
• Bell Ringer: Complete Graphic Organizer (points for accurate progress)
• Discuss• 1-2 Paragraphs• HW: Write paragraphs
Explain whether or not you think the British solutions to creating a successful Palestine will be sucessful
• Problem: Instability in Palestine• CausesBalfour Agreement: Palestinians not allowed to buy or settle in TransJordan
– -Vladamir Jabotinksy- wants to settle near Jordan River, also set up army– Aliyah- 160,000 Jews by 1925– Culture Shock (non secular)
• Effects– Overpopulation– -Arab Riot– No negotiation with Zionists– Jweish sets up militia- Guild of Watchman/ Haganah
• Solution– Use better farmin techniques-”jeapordize Islam”– Pacifcy Arabs- Jewish immigration limited (cultivable land: Jews only 2 Percent arab 47 percent)– HayCraft Commission-rationalized attack– White Papers- Not A Jewish State, just somewhere to live, Palestine not a Muslim State– Passfield Paper of 1930- More regulation of Jewish Land
• Solution– Use better farmin techniques-”jeapordize Islam”– Pacifcy Arabs- Jewish immigration limited (cultivable
land: Jews only 2 Percent arab 47 percent)– HayCraft Commission-rationalized attack– White Papers- Not A Jewish State, just somewhere
to live, Palestine not a Muslim State– Passfield Paper of 1930- More regulation of Jewish
Land
Objective: Objective: Evaluate the Palestine Mandate by analyzing the different British Solutions
• BR• 1) What is the problem? Causes? Effects?• 2) How does this relate to what were
discussing in class?
Key People• Haj Amin- 1921- most influential Arab
in in Palestine. Created Supreme Moslem Council, and gained control over all of mosques, Muslim schools,. Instigates Arab Riots
• Hay Craft/Shaw Commission- investigated Arab Riots
• Winston Churchill- White Paper of 1922- calmed Arab fear that a Jewish State was going to be established in Palestine. Acknowledged historical right to settle there.
• Sir Hope Simpson- Arabs suffering from unemployment because of Jewish businesses only hiring Jews-– controversy
Objective: Compare and contrast the policies in Palestine in 1930 to that of 1920 by completing a Venn Diagram
• 1) What are some ways to stop racism and discrimination?
Key events 1930s
• Nazis• Increase Standard of living
• Jews increase by 375,000• Other- 380,000• Accused Jews of buying land from the Fellaheen (not
true)- bought from wealthy land owners• British offers land to landless Arabs- most takers were
not landless
• Arab Revolt of 1936- 89 Jews killed– Stop Jewish immigration
Key People- Earl Peel• Lord Earl Peel-May 1936
– Investigate Arab Revolts-Peel Commission
– Arab Complaints due more to Arab immigration than Jewish immigration• Jewish immigration helped
increase wages and working opportunities
– Peel Partition Plan of 1937• -(5,000 out of 27,000 k)• 300,000 Arabs live in Jewish State• Debate over Balfour Agreement
– Mufti and Arab Higher Comitee declared Illegal
Events: Jewish Terror
• Charles Wingate- British Captain who trained members of the Haganah-attacked Arabs
• National Military Organization (Ingrun)– Took violent approach
defending Jews and killing Arabs
White Paper of 1939
• Arabs will get Palestine within 10 years– Only 75,000 Jews
allowed in the enxt 5 years
– No immigration after 5 years
• Rejected by both Arabs and Jews