PALESTINE (British Mandate) In the Promised Land Balfour. On Nov. 2, 1917, Mr. Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, issued a declaration on behalf of his Government: "His Majesty's ...

In the case of Palestine, this criterion for declaring it today a ‘colony’, between the river and the sea, is perfectly ...

British High Commissioner Arthur Wauchope, the governor-general of Mandate Palestine and the highest British authority there, delivered one of the opening speeches, expressing his belief in the ...

For decades, diplomats, pundits, and policymakers have fixated on one year when it comes to the Israeli-Arab conflict: 1967.

British Mandate for Palestine Minutes of Meeting of Council held at Geneva on September 29th, 1923. By the decision taken by the Council of the League of Nations on July 24th, 1922, the terms of the ...

Unabated interest in the Palestine situation continues to be displayed by the British press. The Sunday “Times” in addition to giving wide space to the article by Winston Churchill, released ...

The Middle Eastern chessboard has been moving pieces for more than seven decades that always seem to return to the same point. Since UN Resolution 181, which in 1947 drew two squares (one Jewish and ...

During the mandate years between 1923-48, Britain facilitated the immigration of European Jews to Palestine, increasing their population ten-fold, from 60,000 in the pre-Mandate era to 700,000 by ...