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, […]
1936 Arab Revolt
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
- Peel Commission - wikipedia
- Palumbo, Michael. The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from Their Homeland. London: Faber and Faber, 1987, pp 1 - 5