Objective: Evaluate the Palestine Mandate by analyzing the different British Solutions

• Bell Ringer: Complete Graphic Organizer (points for accurate progress)

• Discuss• 1-2 Paragraphs• HW: Write paragraphs

Explain whether or not you think the British solutions to creating a successful Palestine will be sucessful

• Problem: Instability in Palestine• CausesBalfour Agreement: Palestinians not allowed to buy or settle in TransJordan

– -Vladamir Jabotinksy- wants to settle near Jordan River, also set up army– Aliyah- 160,000 Jews by 1925– Culture Shock (non secular)

• Effects– Overpopulation– -Arab Riot– No negotiation with Zionists– Jweish sets up militia- Guild of Watchman/ Haganah

• Solution– Use better farmin techniques-”jeapordize Islam”– Pacifcy Arabs- Jewish immigration limited (cultivable land: Jews only 2 Percent arab 47 percent)– HayCraft Commission-rationalized attack– White Papers- Not A Jewish State, just somewhere to live, Palestine not a Muslim State– Passfield Paper of 1930- More regulation of Jewish Land

• Solution– Use better farmin techniques-”jeapordize Islam”– Pacifcy Arabs- Jewish immigration limited (cultivable

land: Jews only 2 Percent arab 47 percent)– HayCraft Commission-rationalized attack– White Papers- Not A Jewish State, just somewhere

to live, Palestine not a Muslim State– Passfield Paper of 1930- More regulation of Jewish

Land

Objective: Objective: Evaluate the Palestine Mandate by analyzing the different British Solutions

• BR• 1) What is the problem? Causes? Effects?• 2) How does this relate to what were

discussing in class?

Key People• Haj Amin- 1921- most influential Arab

in in Palestine. Created Supreme Moslem Council, and gained control over all of mosques, Muslim schools,. Instigates Arab Riots

• Hay Craft/Shaw Commission- investigated Arab Riots

• Winston Churchill- White Paper of 1922- calmed Arab fear that a Jewish State was going to be established in Palestine. Acknowledged historical right to settle there.

• Sir Hope Simpson- Arabs suffering from unemployment because of Jewish businesses only hiring Jews-– controversy

Key Episodes and Events

• Aliyah• Arab Riots• Hebron Massacre of 1929• Passfield Paper of 1930

Objective: Compare and contrast the policies in Palestine in 1930 to that of 1920 by completing a Venn Diagram

• 1) What are some ways to stop racism and discrimination?

Key events 1930s

• Nazis• Increase Standard of living

• Jews increase by 375,000• Other- 380,000• Accused Jews of buying land from the Fellaheen (not

true)- bought from wealthy land owners• British offers land to landless Arabs- most takers were not

landless

• Arab Revolt of 1936- 89 Jews killed– Stop Jewish immigration

Key People- Earl Peel• Lord Earl Peel-May 1936

– Investigate Arab Revolts-Peel Commission

– Arab Complaints due more to Arab immigration than Jewish immigration• Jewish immigration helped

increase wages and working opportunities

– Peel Partition Plan of 1937• -(5,000 out of 27,000 k)• 300,000 Arabs live in Jewish State• Debate over Balfour Agreement

– Mufti and Arab Higher Comitee declared Illegal

Events: Jewish Terror

• Charles Wingate- British Captain who trained members of the Haganah-attacked Arabs

• National Military Organization (Ingrun)– Took violent approach

defending Jews and killing Arabs

White Paper of 1939

• Arabs will get Palestine within 10 years– Only 75,000 Jews

allowed in the enxt 5 years

– No immigration after 5 years

• Rejected by both Arabs and Jews