Author: Kenneth W. Stein
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab-Israel conflict. Kenneth Stein investigates in detail and without polemics how and why Jews acquired land from Arabs in Palestine during the British Mandate, and he reaches conclusions that are challenging and suprising. Stein contends that Zionists were able to purchase the core of a national territory in Palestine during this period for three reasons: they had the single-mindedness of purpose, as well as the capital, to buy the land; the Arabs, economically impoverished, politically fragmented, and socially atomized, were willing to sell the land; and the British were largely ineffective in regulating land sales and protecting Arab tenants. Neither Arab opposition to land sales nor British attempts to regulate them actually limited land acquisition. There were always more Arab offers to sell land than there were Zionist funds. In fact, many sales were made by Arab politicians who publicly opposed Zionism and even led agitation against land acquisition by Jews. Zionists furthered their own ambitions by skillfully using their understanding of the bureaucracy to write laws and to influence key administrative appointments. Further, they knew how to take advantage of social and economic cleavages within Arab society. Based primarily on archival research, The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 offers an unusually balanced analysis of the social and political history of land sales in Palestine during this critical period. It provides exceptional and essential insight into one of the most troubling conflicts in today's world.
Author: Nicholas Bethell
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive account of the history of Palestine under the British Mandate, including the Arab revolts, the turning away of ships with concentration camp survivors, and terrorist movements.
Author: Bernard Joseph
Publisher:
Published: 1948
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
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Author: Tom Segev
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-11-14
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0805048480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A vivid history of life in Palestine under the British Mandate (1917 to 1948), when many of the seeds of today's conflicts were sown.
Author: Naomi Shepherd
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780813527659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book recreates British rule in Palestine from the winter of 1917 to the spring of 1948. Between these dates, the Jewish minority turned political weakness into strength, and the Palestine Arabs headed for disaster. How this happened under British administration is the subject of this richly documented account, based on public and private papers, memoirs, and interviews--many never previously published. After the First World War the British in Palestine were handed an ambiguous brief: to encourage the formation of a "national home" for the Jews and to protect the "civil and religious rights" of the local Arabs. Colonial officials tried vainly to create a pluralist, "composite state" from communities divided by politics, religion, language, culture--even economic and social structure. They attempted to legislate for the benefit of Arabs and Jews alike, but saw many of their laws on immigration and land evaded by both, often in collusion. Trying at first to settle political conflict by persuasion and conciliation, in the end they turned disastrously to force. This study is the first to reconstruct in detail the workings of the troubled Mandate administration, and the influence of its chief personalities. At the end, with the land records preserved and military equipment consigned to the sea, a leading official complained bitterly that all constructive efforts in Palestine had been like "ploughing sand."
Author: Albert Montefiore Hyamson
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the John Holmes Library collection.
Author: Doreen Ingrams
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of secret British cabinet documents, Foreign and War office memoranda and their cryptic annotations, looking at the creation of a Zionist homeland out of the Palestine Protectorate.