After the King David Hotel bombing, the British administration in Palestine significantly stepped up their oppression of the Jews.At the same time, the ideological differences between the Irgun and the Haganah, which did not approve of such an act, became irreconcilable, and they decided to part ways. In the meantime, many events related to the […]
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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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In 1936, a ‘British Royal Commission of Inquiry’ – the ‘Peel Commission’ that came to Palestine to investigate the Arab-Jew riots, outlined several recommendations. Among them, the key recommendation was – The British tried their best to meet the demands of two opposing sides. However, the effort has failed, and the ‘British Mandate’ appears to […]
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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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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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World War I ended and victors Britain along with the other Allied Powers started to divide the territory of the Axis nations among themselves to suit what was convenient to them. As a result, the Ottoman Empire was reduced only to the region of ‘Anatolia’ – the area from where it had begun its expansion. […]
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