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 ...

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 ...

This is a review of an exceptional photo book, Images of Palestine (1898-1946). ... the British Mandate and the large European Jewish immigration supported by British colonial authorities, ...

The British mandate ended on May 15, 1948, and on that same day, ... Palestine has been a nonmember observer state of the United Nations General Assembly since 2012.

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 ...