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The Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, was a British Royal Commission of Inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes of conflict in Mandatory Palestine, which was administered by the United Kingdom, following a six-month-long Arab general strike.
Woodhead Commission, Plan A. Plan A, was based on the Peel Plan, with the boundaries redrawn "more exactly, taking their outline as a guide". [18] It proposed a coastal Jewish state, a British-mandated corridor from Jerusalem to the coastal city Jaffa, and the remainder of Palestine merged with Transjordan into an Arab state. [4]
Peel Commission Partition Plan A, July 1937. 5 January – The founding of the kibbutz Sde Nahum by members of the Sadeh group from the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, as well as Jewish immigrants from Austria, Germany and Poland. 31 January – The founding of the kibbutz Masada
The UN ignored the Peel Commission's partition plan of 1937 and instead favoured a two-state solution where a significantly larger portion—with a majority Arab population—was declared Jewish territory. [1] The book focuses on the consequences of these developments for the Palestinians. Gilmour disproves several claims used in Zionist ...
1947 UN proposal: Proposal per the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), 1947), prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The proposal included a Corpus Separatum for Jerusalem, extraterritorial crossroads between the non-contiguous areas, and Jaffa as an Arab exclave.
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II).
Rebels, some mounted on horses, posing with their rifles and a Palestinian Arab flag emblazoned with a cross and crescent, 1937 Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad was designated the "General Commander of the Revolt" by the Central Committee of National Jihad in Palestine Farhan al-Sa'di following his arrest by British Mandatory police, 1937. He was ...
The history of the State of Palestine describes the creation and evolution of the State of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. During the British mandate period, numerous plans of partition of Palestine were proposed but without the agreement of all parties. In 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was voted for. The ...