House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs, “The Jewish National...
Sources: for the transcript : https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3070593 In four sessions the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in early 1944 discussed and received extensive expert testimony...
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The Biltmore Program
(11 May 1942) Ben Gurion, David. “The Biltmore Program.” Extraordinary Zionist Conference. Biltmore Hotel. 11 May 1942. Address. By the 1930s, David Ben-Gurion saw multiple reasons for linking the...
View ArticleDavid Ben-Gurion, Guideline for Zionist Policy, 1941
Submitted to the Jewish Agency Executive Meeting, Jerusalem, March 23, 1941 Source: Allon Gal, David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and...
View ArticleRemarks by the Right Honorable Winston Churchill
Source: British House of Commons, 23 May 1939; also cited in documents appended to the Hearings on the Jewish National Home in the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Debate on...
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HMG White Paper: Statement of Policy
(May 1939) Hurewitz, J.C. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, British- French Supremacy, 1914- 1945. Vol. 2. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 532-38. Print The 1939 White Paper...
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The Mufti’s Decision to Reject a Majority Palestinian State
(March 1939) Al-Husayni, Hajj Amin. “The Decision by Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husayni to reject the 1939 White Paper.” Izzat Tannous, The Palestinians Eyewitness History of Palestine. New York: Igt Co,...
View ArticleGershon Agronsky: “Palestine Arab Economy Undermined by Disturbances”
(20 January 1939) Gershon Agronsky,* “Palestine Arab Economy Undermined by Disturbances,” Political Department, Central Zionist Archives, January 20, 1939, Central Zionist Archives Political Department...
View ArticleBritish Government: Policy Statement/Advice against Partition
(11 November 1938) Source: UK Secretary of State for the Colonies Advice against Partition UK Documentation Cmd. 5893/Non-UN Document (11 November 1938). United Nations, n.d. Web. 24 July 2012....
View ArticleArab Leaders Meeting in Damascus
(30 September 1938) Source in Hebrew: http://www.scribd.com/doc/12864644/ Original source found in Ben-Gurion Library Archives and Central Zionist Archives, S25/10526/3 Printable PDF This secret...
View ArticleChaim Weizmann’s Notes for Speech, “Rallying World Jewry to Partition”
The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Voleume II, Series B (December 1931 – April 1952), Volume II, Series B, Editor: Barnet Litvinoff [W. traveled to Palestine Nov. 1937 and made two widely-...
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The Political Significance of JNF Land Purchase
(31 December 1937) E.M. Epstein, The Political Significance of Land Purchases, JNF, Information Circular No. 2/98, strictly confidential, 1937: CZA/S25/10250 The Jewish National Fund (JNF), established...
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Peel Commission Report
Peel Commission Report, Findings and Recommendations of the Royal Commission, excerpts (July 1937) Royal Institute of International Affairs, Great Britain and Palestine, 1915-1945, Information Paper...
View ArticleSystematic Agricultural Colonization in Palestine
1934 J. Elazari – Volcani (Issac Vilkanski) SYSTEMATIC AGRICULTURAL COLONIZATION IN PALESTINE REPORT PRESENTED AT THE XVIIITH ZIONIST CONGRESS PRAGUE, 1933 Special Printing from the Protocol of the...
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Ken Stein – Socio-economic Differences Preface Palestine’s Political...
Enumerable socio-economic differences separated the lives and the lifestyles of Arabs and Jews in Palestine in the period before 1948. Those differences had a direct impact on the ability and success...
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The Census of Palestine, 1931 – An Invaluable Glimpse at Palestine’s...
Compilation Ken Stein, July 12, 2021 The 1931 Census of Palestine is a wonderfully rich and essential review of Palestine’s population on November 18, 1931. We learn that the Arab and Jewish...
View ArticleZirin Village Land Sales
(August 16 – October 1, 1930) Source: Husayni, Hilmi. “Regarding Sales of Zirin Village Land.” Letter. 16 Aug. 1930. MS. Israel State Archives. Jerusalem. Box 3511/1 These Arab lands sold to the JNF...
View ArticleJewish Agency official Margalith Identifies Arab peasant displacement from...
February 5, 1930 Source: Heinrich Margalith to Felix Rosenbluth. February 5, 1930. Record group S25/file 7619, Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem Central to linking Jewish immigrants to the...
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The Mandate for Palestine
(24 July 1922) Hurewitz, J.C. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, A Documentary Record . 2nd, Revised and Enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 305-308. Print. Vol. 2 of...
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1922 White Paper on Palestine
(July 1922) Hurewitz, J.C. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, A Documentary Record . 2nd, Revised and Enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 301-5. Print. Vol. 2 of...
View ArticlePalestine Disturbances May 1921, (Haycraft Commission), Reports of Commission...
October 1921 “There were two reports written, one dealing with Jaffa on May 1-6, and the other dealing with the Arab attack on the Jewish colony of Khedera on May 5. On the 7th May a Commission was...
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