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Britain's Unfulfilled Mandate for Palestine (Hardcover)
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Britain's Unfulfilled Mandate for Palestine (Hardcover)
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This book provides an in-depth survey of Britain's Mandate in
Palestine, an issue crucial to understanding the continuing
atmosphere of mistrust and violence in the region that continues to
the present. At the conclusion of the First World War (1914-18),
the League of Nations awarded a Mandate to Great Britain, which
entailed governing a part of the defunct Ottoman Empire, a part
which became known as Palestine. The Mandate, empowering Britain to
govern this area for an unspecified period, had as one of its main
objectives the understanding that Britain would assist the Zionist
Movement in the creation of a Homeland for the Jewish people in
Palestine. During the thirty years that Britain ruled Palestine, it
made no serious effort to carry out this commitment. The author
discusses a variety of reasons for this failure, but the greatest
obstacle preventing it from fulfilling its Mandate was that Britain
completely miscalculated the reaction of the large Arab majority in
the country. In fear of repercussions from the growing Arab
nationalism various British Governments over the years decided that
their best interests would be served by appeasing the Palestine
Arabs and reneging on the British promise to Zionism. As the author
shows, Britain's failure to fulfil its Mandate obligations was a
major contribution to the problems that have persisted in the
Middle East for decades.
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