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DZ Season 058 Part 32. Israel. The Palestinians Made Their Own Palestinian Catastrophe.
On 19 April 1936 the Muslims gave the Jews the gift of their homeland, promised by the British in the Balfour Declaration, then by the League of Nations when it created the British Mandate on 24 July 1922 – far bigger than was looking likely at that time – if they were to get one at all.
What the Jewish homeland would eventually look like was tricky. The Muslims had fought against it ever being created, they had fought against Jewish immigration, they had fought against the British Mandate. But thanks to the Arab Revolt that began on 19 April 1936, they gave the Jews what they had been trying to block - their homeland.
They gave the Jews pretty well everything they had wanted (if you ignore Churchill giving away 83% of their promised homeland to King Abdullah in Transjordan) and much much more than the pittance that the British had ended up promising the Muslims in the 1936 Peel Report, nothing in the 1939 White Paper and the land that the United Nations offered them with their Resolution 181 for the partition of the rump of the Jewish homeland on 29 November 1947.
The Muslims had wanted it all – and they ended up with close to nothing.
The Jews paid a price for what happened during the Arab Revolt, a price that they’re sill paying today, but overall, they could never have hoped for a better outcome at the time that Arab Revolt started.
In my last two programmes I looked at the early days of the Arab Revolt. Now it’s time to look at the big picture – starting with the unplanned and runaway strike and revolt, that started by itself, and never really found anyone to lead it.
Tag words: Muslims; Arabs; Balfour Declaration; League of Nations; British Mandate; Arab Revolt; Churchill; King Abdullah; 1936 Peel Report; 1939 White Paper; United Nations; Resolution 181; Easter Riots; Nabi Musa; Adolf Hitler; Nuremberg Laws; Palestine; US Immigration Act 1924; anti-semitism; Quran; Mohammad; Istiqlal Party; Arab Higher Committee; Izz al-Din al-Qassam; Fawzi al-Qawuqji; Chaim Weizmann; David Ben-Gurion; Golda Meyerson; histadrut; Grand Mufti; havlagah; Ze’ev Jabotinsky;
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By Paul FordyceOn 19 April 1936 the Muslims gave the Jews the gift of their homeland, promised by the British in the Balfour Declaration, then by the League of Nations when it created the British Mandate on 24 July 1922 – far bigger than was looking likely at that time – if they were to get one at all.
What the Jewish homeland would eventually look like was tricky. The Muslims had fought against it ever being created, they had fought against Jewish immigration, they had fought against the British Mandate. But thanks to the Arab Revolt that began on 19 April 1936, they gave the Jews what they had been trying to block - their homeland.
They gave the Jews pretty well everything they had wanted (if you ignore Churchill giving away 83% of their promised homeland to King Abdullah in Transjordan) and much much more than the pittance that the British had ended up promising the Muslims in the 1936 Peel Report, nothing in the 1939 White Paper and the land that the United Nations offered them with their Resolution 181 for the partition of the rump of the Jewish homeland on 29 November 1947.
The Muslims had wanted it all – and they ended up with close to nothing.
The Jews paid a price for what happened during the Arab Revolt, a price that they’re sill paying today, but overall, they could never have hoped for a better outcome at the time that Arab Revolt started.
In my last two programmes I looked at the early days of the Arab Revolt. Now it’s time to look at the big picture – starting with the unplanned and runaway strike and revolt, that started by itself, and never really found anyone to lead it.
Tag words: Muslims; Arabs; Balfour Declaration; League of Nations; British Mandate; Arab Revolt; Churchill; King Abdullah; 1936 Peel Report; 1939 White Paper; United Nations; Resolution 181; Easter Riots; Nabi Musa; Adolf Hitler; Nuremberg Laws; Palestine; US Immigration Act 1924; anti-semitism; Quran; Mohammad; Istiqlal Party; Arab Higher Committee; Izz al-Din al-Qassam; Fawzi al-Qawuqji; Chaim Weizmann; David Ben-Gurion; Golda Meyerson; histadrut; Grand Mufti; havlagah; Ze’ev Jabotinsky;