After the failure of the 1939 Jew-Arab ‘London Conference’, the British government unilaterally announced a ‘White Paper’. The White Paper was a complete Arab-leaning imposition. It proposed for allotment of most of the land of Palestine to the Arabs while leaving an insignificant part of it for the Jews. The White Paper also enforced strict […]
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Even after the efforts of the two ‘British Royal Commissions of Inquiry’, namely the ‘Peel Commission’ and the ‘Woodhead Commission’, appointed by the British government, there were no signs of any resolution to the deadlock between the Arabs and the Jews in Palestine. Reports of both the commissions were rejected by the Arabs and also […]
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Both the Arabs and the Jews rejected the report of the ‘Peel Commission’, but the British government welcomed it and agreed in principle to its suggestion of partition of Palestine. Later, in 1938, to study in detail the recommendations of the Peel Commission report and to examine the practicality about its main recommendation of the […]
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Between 1933 and 1945, when the Jews in Germany were facing the Nazi atrocities, Palestine too was witnessing numerous happenings. In the meantime, the fifth ‘Aliyah’ happened during 1930-36, which brought with it some 170 thousand Jewish people to Palestine from across the globe. Overall, they now numbered well above 382 thousand. In 1935, David […]
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All the events of taking place in the 1930s were leading to major adversity, a crisis for the Jewish people. In 1933, the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany. On 30 January 1933, Hitler ascended to power, and within no time from this event, the Jews staying in Germany started to feel […]
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The Arab-Jew riots of 1929 in Jerusalem gradually quelled but only after consuming the lives of numerous Jews and after extensive damages to their properties and synagogues. Though everything seemed normal, it was superficial. The mutual anger in the minds of people on both the sides continued to rage unabated. The Arabs resorted to boycotting […]
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During the 1920s, the gulf between the Arabs and the Jews went on widening. The British rulers too were inclined towards appeasing the Arabs and at the same time imposing increasing restrictions on the Jews. During 1925, Palestine’s population had 15 percent Jews, but they paid staggering 45 percent of the taxes. However, most of […]
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During the 1920s, another important happening in the Middle East was the progress that happened towards the creation of the state of ‘Saudi Arabia’ by coming together and integration of various distributed principalities and emirates spread across the Arabian Peninsula. Most of the scholars from the region believe that the process of the founding of […]
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The 1920s was a decade proving to have special importance not only for the Jews but also for the Middle East as a whole. Importantly, the events of this decade had profound effects on the future of Israel. The first important happening at the start of the decade was the birth of Turkey. The Ottoman […]
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Though the decade that began from the year 1920 saw conflagration of the Jew-Arab conflict, it was the period which marked the beginning of many positive developments for the Jewish people. Several organizations which laid the foundation for the future of Israel in various sectors including business, etc., were formed and also took a definite […]
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