Britain’s Unfulfilled Mandate for Palestine

271 Pages·2014·2.385 MB·English

by  Nick Reynold

Britain’s Unfulfilled Mandate
for Palestine
Britain’s Unfulfilled Mandate
for Palestine
Nick Reynold
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Reynold, Nick, author.
Britain's unfulfilled mandate for Palestine / Nick Reynold.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7391-8700-5 (cloth : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-7391-8701-2 (electronic)
1. Palestine--History--1917-1948. 2. Mandates--Palestine--History--20th century. 3. Palestine--Politics and
government--1917-1948. 4. Great Britain--Foreign relations--Palestine. 5. Palestine--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
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Abbreviations
AE: Arab Executive

B-G: David Ben-Gurion

CO: British Colonial Office

FO: British Foreign Office

HC: British High Commissioner

KKL/JNF: Jewish National Fund—land acquisition agency

OETA: Occupied Enemy Territory Administration—
Military Government in Palestine 1917–1920

PMC: Permanent Mandates Commission (Geneva)

PZE: Palestine Zionist Executive

VL: Va’ad Leumi (Palestine Jewish National Council)

ZO: Zionist Organization

Acknowledgments
As a new boy in the field of writing history I have been very dependent on the
encouragement and support of those people around me who urged me on.
First in line is the late Jon Frankel whom I met in our undergraduate days. Our
ways parted until I came to live in Israel and at that time he was a Professor of
Russian History at the Hebrew University. He was instrumental in pointing me in the
right direction and always had time and patience for me.
My Doctoral thesis at Bar-Ilan University was overseen by Professor Moshe Gat
who denied that I was his oldest ever student and treated me with kindness and
understanding in my quest.
Danny Gavron is a well published journalist and author to whom I turned for
advice and help. It was he who led me to Rowman & Lttlefield, with whom he had
enjoyed a successful relationship, and later on was constrained to write nice things
about the book.
At Rowman & Littlefield I always received reliable and professional co-operation
at the highest level. In particular I would like to sincerely thank Marie-Claire, Sabah,
Brian and Ethan.
A technophobe like me always needs nursing by an individual with the answers to
my desperate questions at his fingertips .To me they appear unsolvable, but to him
they are inevitably speedily and easily fixed. Such an individual is Harold Hirsch-
Thanks Harry.
Thanks to family and friends who were entirely supportive and somewhat
amazed by the challenge I had undertaken and who willingly or otherwise read the
drafts, And last of all a huge thanks to Varda, who was merely inspirational.
Nick Reynold
Hadera 2014
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A Mandate Proposed