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1915: Hussein McMahon Correspondence

Britain persuades Arabs to enter the war alongside the British against the Ottoman Empire in exchange for an Arab homeland.

The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence took place between July 1915 and March 1916, between Hussein bin Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, and Sir Henry McMahon, the British High Commissioner in Egypt.  The correspondence centered on the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire and British support for it, with discussions about the post-war recognition and independence of an […]

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1916 – Sykes-Picot Agreement

The French and the British Make a Secret Agreement Dividing up the Land Promised to the Arabs

The Sykes–Picot Agreement was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire. France and British representative signed the agreement a year after the Hussein-McMahon […]

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1916: Arab Revolt Against Ottoman Empire

Lawrence of Arabia: Enticed by the British With a Promise of an Arab Homeland, Arabs Join WWI Against the Ottoman Empire

On the basis of the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence, exchanged between Henry McMahon of the United Kingdom and Hussein bin Ali of the Kingdom of Hejaz, the rebellion against the ruling Turks was officially initiated at Mecca on 10 June 1916. The primary goal of the Arabs was to establish an independent and unified Arab state stretching […]

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1917: Balfour Declaration

Britain Pledges a Zionist Homeland in Palestine

The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The statement came in the form of a letter from […]

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1918: Partition of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire is Divided up Between the French and the British, and Promises Made to the Arabs Are Ignored.

The partition of the Ottoman Empire (30 October 1918 – 1 November 1922) was a geopolitical event that occurred after World War I and the occupation of Istanbul by British, French, and Italian troops in November 1918. The partitioning was planned in several agreements made by the Allied Powers early in the course of World […]

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1919: Paris Peace Conference:

The League of Nations creates mandates and recognizes Jewish "title" over the land in Palestine

The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious Allies set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. Dominated by the leaders of Britain, France, the United States and Italy, the talks resulted in five […]

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1920: League of Nations is Formed

The League of Nations officially came into existence on 10 January 1920. On 15 November 1920, 41 members states gathered in Geneva for the opening of the first session of the Assembly. This represented a large portion of existing states and corresponded to more than 70% of the world’s population. The League of Nations was the […]

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1929: Arab Revolt

Following illegal Jewish provocations at the Al Asqa Mosque/Western Wall, Palestinians in Jerusalem riot.

The 1929 Palestine riots, Buraq Uprising (Arabic: ثورة البراق, Thawrat al-Burāq), was a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 in which a longstanding dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence. On August 15, 1929, group of 300 Revisionist Zionist youth, who were militant […]

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Resources

  1. 1929 Palestinian riots - wikipedia
  2. Pro Wailing Wall Committee - wikipedia
  3. Shaw Commission on Cause of Riots - wikipedia
  4. Revisionist Zionism
  5. Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006), 44.
  6. Naomi Wiener Cohen, The year after the riots: American responses to the Palestine crisis of 1929-39, Wayne State University Press, 1988 p. 34

1936 – Arab General Strike & Revolt

On April 21 1936, Arab workers and local committees organized a strike of all Arabs engaged in labour, transport and shopkeeping in Palestine. This was a spontaneous popular resistance. Religious leaders, influential families and political leaders became involved to help with co-ordination, leading to the formation on 25 April 1936 of the Arab Higher Committee, […]

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1937 – Peel Commission Recommends Partition

Examining the Causes of the Arab Revolt, the Peel Commission Proposes Dividing Palestine into Separate Arab and Jewish States. The Arabs Reject the Partition, and The Zionists Want All of Palestine, So the Plan is Abandoned.

The Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, was established in 1937 to investigate the causes of the Arab unrest and general strike of 1936. Their official finding, issued on July 7, 1937, was that the League of Nations Mandate had become unworkable, and recommended partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. […]

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Resources

  1. Peel Commission - wikipedia
  2. Palumbo, Michael. The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from Their Homeland. London: Faber and Faber, 1987, pp 1 - 5