Mandatory Palestine
Palestine | |||||||||||||
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1920–1948 | |||||||||||||
High Commissioner | | ||||||||||||
• 1920–1925 (first) | Sir Herbert L. Samuel | ||||||||||||
• 1945–1948 (last) | Sir Alan Cunningham | ||||||||||||
Legislature | |||||||||||||
• Parliamentary body of the Muslim community | Second World War | ||||||||||||
• Mandate assigned | 25 April 1920 | ||||||||||||
• Britain officially assumes control | 29 September 1923 | ||||||||||||
14 May 1948 | |||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||
• Census | 757,182 (1922)[3] | ||||||||||||
Currency | Egyptian pound (until 1927) Palestine pound (from 1927) | ||||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | PS | ||||||||||||
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Today part of | Israel Palestine |
Mandatory Palestine[a][4] was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.
After an
During the Mandate, the area saw successive waves of
Mandatory Palestine was designated as a Class A Mandate, based on its social, political, and economic development. This classification was reserved for post-war mandates with the highest capacity for self-governance.[7] All Class A mandates other than mandatory Palestine had gained independence by 1946.[8]
Etymology
The name given to the Mandate's territory was "Palestine", in accordance with local Palestinian Arab and Ottoman usage[9][10][11][12] and with European tradition.[b] The Mandate charter stipulated that Mandatory Palestine would have three official languages: English, Arabic and Hebrew.
In 1926, the British authorities formally decided to use the traditional Arabic and Hebrew equivalents to the English name, i.e. filasţīn (فلسطين) and pālēśtīnā (פּלשׂתינה) respectively. The Jewish leadership proposed that the proper Hebrew name should be ʾĒrēts Yiśrāʾel (ארץ ישׂראל, Land of Israel). The final compromise was to add the initials of the Hebrew proposed name, Alef-Yod, within parenthesis (א״י), whenever the Mandate's name was mentioned in Hebrew in official documents. [14] The Arab leadership saw this compromise as a violation of the mandate terms. Some Arab politicians suggested "Southern Syria" (سوريا الجنوبية) as the Arabic name instead. The British authorities rejected this proposal; according to the Minutes of the Ninth Session of the League of Nations' Permanent Mandates Commission:
Colonel Symes explained that the country was described as "Palestine" by Europeans and as "Falestin" by the Arabs. The Hebrew name for the country was the designation "Land of Israel", and the Government, to meet Jewish wishes, had agreed that the word "Palestine" in Hebrew characters should be followed in all official documents by the initials which stood for that designation. As a set-off to this, certain of the Arab politicians suggested that the country should be called "Southern Syria" in order to emphasise its close relation with another Arab State.[15]
The adjective "mandatory" indicates that the entity's legal status derived from a League of Nations mandate; it is not related to the word's more commonplace usage as a synonym for "compulsory" or "necessary".[16]
History
1920s
In March 1920, there was an attack by Arabs on the Jewish village of Tel Hai. In April, there was another attack on Jews, this time in Jerusalem.
In July 1920, a British civilian administration headed by a
One of the first actions of the newly installed civil administration was to begin granting concessions from the Mandatory government over key economic assets. In 1921 the government granted Pinhas Rutenberg – a Jewish entrepreneur – concessions for the production and distribution of electrical power. Rutenberg soon established an electric company whose shareholders were Zionist organisations, investors, and philanthropists. Palestinian-Arabs saw it as proof that the British intended to favour Zionism. The British administration claimed that electrification would enhance the economic development of the country as a whole, while at the same time securing their commitment to facilitate a Jewish National Home through economic – rather than political – means.[23]
In May 1921, following a disturbance between rival Jewish left-wing protestors and then attacks by Arabs on Jews, almost 100 died in
High Commissioner Samuel tried to establish self-governing institutions in Palestine, as required by the mandate, but the Arab leadership refused to co-operate with any institution which included Jewish participation.
The 1922 Palestine Order in Council[29] established a Legislative Council, which was to consist of 23 members: 12 elected, 10 appointed, and the High Commissioner.[30] Of the 12 elected members, eight were to be Muslim Arabs, two Christian Arabs, and two Jews.[31] Arabs protested against the distribution of the seats, arguing that as they constituted 88% of the population, having only 43% of the seats was unfair.[31] Elections took place in February and March 1923, but due to an Arab boycott, the results were annulled and a 12-member Advisory Council was established.[30]
At the First World Congress of Jewish Women which was held in Vienna, Austria, 1923, it was decided that: "It appears, therefore, to be the duty of all Jews to co-operate in the social-economic reconstruction of Palestine and to assist in the settlement of Jews in that country."[32]
In October 1923, Britain provided the League of Nations with a report on the administration of Palestine for the period 1920–1922, which covered the period before the mandate.[33]
In August 1929, there were riots in which 250 people died.
1930s: Arab armed insurgency
In 1930,
The Arab revolt
The death of al-Qassam on 20 November 1935 generated widespread outrage in the Arab community. Huge crowds accompanied Qassam's body to his grave in
During the first stages of the Arab Revolt, due to rivalry between the clans of al-Husseini and
After the Arab rejection of the Peel Commission recommendation, the revolt resumed in autumn 1937. Over the next 18 months, the British lost
By the time the revolt concluded in March 1939, more than 5,000 Arabs, 400 Jews, and 200 British had been killed and at least 15,000 Arabs were wounded.[43] In total, 10% of the adult Arab male population was killed, wounded, imprisoned, or exiled.[44] From 1936 to 1945, while establishing collaborative security arrangements with the Jewish Agency, the British confiscated 13,200 firearms from Arabs and 521 weapons from Jews.[45]
The attacks on the Jewish population by Arabs had three lasting effects: firstly, they led to the formation and development of Jewish underground militias, primarily the
The revolt had also a negative effect on Palestinian Arab leadership, social cohesion, and military capabilities, and it contributed to the outcome of the 1948 War because "when the Palestinians faced their most fateful challenge in 1947–49, they were still suffering from the British repression of 1936–39, and were in effect without a unified leadership. Indeed, it might be argued that they were virtually without any leadership at all."[46]
Partition proposals
In 1937, the Peel Commission proposed a partition between a small Jewish state, whose Arab population would have to be transferred, and an Arab state to be attached to the Emirate of Transjordan, this emirate also being part of the wider Mandate for Palestine. The proposal was rejected outright by the Arabs. The two main Jewish leaders, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion, had convinced the Zionist Congress to equivocally approve the Peel recommendations as a basis for more negotiation.[47][48][49][50][51] In a letter to his son in October 1937, Ben-Gurion explained that partition would be a first step to "possession of the land as a whole".[52][53][54] The same sentiment was recorded by Ben-Gurion on other occasions, such as at a meeting of the Jewish Agency executive in June 1938,[55] as well as by Chaim Weizmann.[54][56]
Following the
Second World War
Allied and Axis activity
On 10 June 1940, during the
inflicting multiple casualties.In 1942, there was a period of great concern for the Yishuv, when the German forces of General Erwin Rommel advanced east across North Africa towards the Suez Canal, raising a fear that they would conquer Palestine. This period was referred to as the "200 days of dread". This event was the direct cause for the founding, with British support, of the Palmach[58] – a highly trained regular unit belonging to Haganah (a paramilitary group composed mostly of reserves).
As in most of the Arab world, there was no unanimity amongst the Palestinian Arabs as to their position regarding the belligerents in the Second World War. A number of leaders and public figures saw an
Mobilisation
On 3 July 1944, the British government consented to the establishment of a
From the Palestine Regiment, two platoons, one Jewish, under the command of
Besides Jews and Arabs from Palestine, in total by mid-1944 the British had assembled a multiethnic force consisting of volunteer European Jewish refugees (from German-occupied countries), Yemenite Jews and Abyssinian Jews.[63]
The Holocaust and immigration quotas
In 1939, as a consequence of the
Starting in 1939, a clandestine immigration effort called
After the war, 250,000 Jewish refugees were stranded in displaced persons (DP) camps in Europe. Despite the pressure of world opinion, in particular the repeated requests of the
Beginning of Zionist insurgency
The Jewish
After the Second World War: Insurgency and the Partition Plan
The three main Jewish underground forces later united to form the
The negative publicity resulting from the situation in Palestine caused the Mandate to become widely unpopular in Britain itself and caused the United States Congress to delay granting the British vital loans for reconstruction. The British Labour Party had promised before its election in 1945 to allow mass Jewish migration into Palestine but reneged on this promise once in office. Anti-British Jewish militancy increased, and the situation required the presence of over 100,000 British troops in the country. Following the Acre Prison Break and the retaliatory hanging of British sergeants by the Irgun, the British announced their desire to terminate the mandate and to withdraw by no later than the beginning of August 1948.[21]
The
These events were the decisive factors that forced Britain to announce their desire to terminate the Palestine Mandate and place the Question of Palestine before the
On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly, voting 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions, adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union as Resolution 181 (II),[71][72] while making some adjustments to the boundaries between the two states proposed by it. The division was to take effect on the date of British withdrawal. The partition plan required that the proposed states grant full civil rights to all people within their borders, regardless of race, religion or gender. The UN General Assembly is only granted the power to make recommendations; therefore, UNGAR 181 was not legally binding.[73] Both the US and the Soviet Union supported the resolution. Haiti, Liberia, and the Philippines changed their votes at the last moment after concerted pressure from the US and from Zionist organisations.[74][75][76] The five members of the Arab League, who were voting members at the time, voted against the Plan.
The Jewish Agency, which was the Jewish state-in-formation, accepted the plan, and nearly all the Jews in Palestine rejoiced at the news.
The partition plan was rejected by the Palestinian Arab leadership and by most of the Arab population.[f][g] Meeting in Cairo on November and December 1947, the Arab League then adopted a series of resolutions endorsing a military solution to the conflict.
Britain announced that it would accept the partition plan, but refused to enforce it, arguing it was not accepted by the Arabs. Britain also refused to share the administration of Palestine with the UN Palestine Commission during the transitional period. In September 1947, the British government announced that the Mandate for Palestine would end at midnight on 14 May 1948.[79][80][81]
Some Jewish organisations also opposed the proposal. Irgun leader Menachem Begin announced, "The partition of the Homeland is illegal. It will never be recognised. The signature by institutions and individuals of the partition agreement is invalid. It will not bind the Jewish people. Jerusalem was and will forever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for ever."[82]
Termination of the mandate
When the United Kingdom announced the independence of the
During the General Assembly deliberations on Palestine, there were suggestions that it would be desirable to incorporate part of Transjordan's territory into the proposed Jewish state. A few days before the adoption of
Immediately after the UN resolution,
The British had notified the UN of their intent to terminate the mandate not later than 1 August 1948.
By 14 May 1948, the only British forces remaining in Palestine were in the Haifa area and in Jerusalem. On that same day, the British garrison in Jerusalem withdrew, and the last High Commissioner,
At midnight on 14/15 May 1948, the Mandate for Palestine expired, and the State of Israel came into being. The Palestine Government formally ceased to exist, the status of British forces still in the process of withdrawal from Haifa changed to occupiers of foreign territory, the
Over the next few days, approximately 700 Lebanese, 1,876 Syrian, 4,000 Iraqi, and 2,800 Egyptian troops crossed over the borders into Palestine, starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[107] Around 4,500 Transjordanian troops, commanded partly by 38 British officers who had resigned their commissions in the British Army only weeks earlier, including overall commander, General John Bagot Glubb, entered the corpus separatum region encompassing Jerusalem and its environs (in response to the Haganah's Operation Kilshon)[108] and moved into areas designated as part of the Arab state by the UN partition plan. The war, which was to last until 1949, would see Israel expand to encompass about 78% of the territory of the former British Mandate, with Transjordan seizing and subsequently annexing the West Bank and the Kingdom of Egypt seizing the Gaza Strip. With the end of the Mandate, the remaining British troops in Israel were concentrated in an enclave in the Haifa port area, through which they were being withdrawn, and at RAF Ramat David, which was maintained to cover the withdrawal. The British handed over RAF Ramat David to the Israelis on 26 May and on 30 June, the last British troops were evacuated from Haifa. The British flag was lowered from the administrative building of the Port of Haifa and the Israeli flag was raised in its place, and the Haifa port area was formally handed over to the Israeli authorities in a ceremony.[109]
Politics
The administration of the Mandate was officially under British Government Service however, the Peel Commission noted that it was unreliable, understaffed, and over-centralised and that racial antagonism between Jews and Arabs had begun affecting the whole Administration. The Jewish Agency and the Arab Higher Committee representing the Jews and the Arabs respectively, had grown to be parallel governments themselves, a case of imperium in imperio. [110]
Palestinian Arab community
The resolution of the
Article 62 (LXII) of the Treaty of Berlin, signed on 13 July 1878,[113] dealt with religious freedom and civil and political rights in all parts of the Ottoman Empire.[114] The guarantees have frequently been referred to as "religious rights" or "minority rights". However, the guarantees included a prohibition against discrimination in civil and political matters. Difference of religion could not be alleged against any person as a ground for exclusion or incapacity in matters relating to the enjoyment of civil or political rights, admission to public employments, functions, and honours, or the exercise of the various professions and industries, "in any locality whatsoever".
A legal analysis performed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) noted that the Covenant of the League of Nations had provisionally recognised the communities of Palestine as independent nations. The mandate simply marked a transitory period, with the aim and object of leading the mandated territory to become an independent self-governing State.[115] Judge Higgins explained that the Palestinian people are entitled to their territory, to exercise self-determination, and to have their own State."[116] The Court said that specific guarantees regarding freedom of movement and access to the Holy Sites contained in the Treaty of Berlin (1878) had been preserved under the terms of the Palestine Mandate and a chapter of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.[117]
According to historian
The terms of the mandate required the establishment of self-governing institutions in both Palestine and Transjordan. In 1947, the Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, admitted that, during the previous twenty-five years, the British had done their best to further the legitimate aspirations of the Jewish communities without prejudicing the interests of the Arabs, but had failed to "secure the development of self-governing institutions" in accordance with the terms of the Mandate.[122]
Palestinian Arab leadership and national aspirations
Under the British Mandate, the office of "Mufti of Jerusalem", traditionally limited in authority and geographical scope, was refashioned into that of "Grand Mufti of Palestine". Furthermore, a Supreme Muslim Council (SMC) was established and given various duties, such as the administration of
On the Husseini-Nashashibi rivalry, an editorial in the Arabic-language Falastin newspaper in the 1920s commented:[129]
The spirit of factionalism has penetrated most levels of society; one can see it among journalists, trainees, and the rank and file. If you ask anyone: who does he support? He will reply with pride, Husseini or Nashasibi, or ... he will start to pour out his wrath against the opposing camp in a most repulsive manner.
There had already been rioting and attacks on and massacres of Jews in
Palestinian Arab journalism
After the Palestinian Arab press during the
The Ottoman Press Law, which mandated licensing and the submission of translations to government authorities, was adopted by the British, but they rarely interfered until the
Many of the editors and owners of newspapers were members of political organizations, and used their publications for mobilizing the public.[134] The British authorities' attitude towards Palestinian press was initially tolerant, given they had assessed that their impact on public life was minimal, but restrictive measures were soon increasingly introduced. A new Publications Law was issued in 1933, which gave the British authorities the power to revoke publication permits, suspend newspapers, and punish journalists. Regulations were issued that further restricted freedom of the press. Many major publications were suspended for extended periods between 1937 and 1938, including Falastin, Al-Difa, and Al-Liwa. After the outbreak of World War II, emergency laws were enacted and the British closed almost all the newspapers, with the exception of Falastin and Al-Difa, due to the moderation of their tone and the publishing of censored news.[135]
Jewish community
The conquest of Ottoman Syria by British forces in 1917 found a mixed community in the region, with Palestine, the southern part of Ottoman Syria, containing a mixed population of Muslims, Christians, Jews and Druze. In this period, the Jewish community (Yishuv) in Palestine was composed of traditional Jewish communities in cities (the Old Yishuv), which had existed for centuries,[136] and the newly established agricultural Zionist communities (the New Yishuv), established since the 1870s. With the establishment of the Mandate, the Jewish community in Palestine formed the Zionist Commission to represent its interests.
In 1929, the
In response to numerous Arab attacks on Jewish communities, the
Jewish immigration
During the Mandate, the Yishuv grew from one-sixth to almost one-third of the population. According to official records, 367,845 Jews and 33,304 non-Jews immigrated legally between 1920 and 1945.[139] It was estimated that another 50–60,000 Jews and a marginal number of Arabs, the latter mostly on a seasonal basis, immigrated illegally during this period.[140] Immigration accounted for most of the increase of Jewish population, while the non-Jewish population increase was largely natural.[141] Of the Jewish immigrants, in 1939 most had come from Germany and Czechoslovakia, but in 1940–1944 most came from Romania and Poland, with an additional 3,530 immigrants arriving from Yemen during the same period.[142]
Initially, Jewish immigration to Palestine met little opposition from the
Jewish immigrants were to be afforded Palestinian citizenship:
Article 7. The Administration of Palestine shall be responsible for enacting a nationality law. There shall be included in this law provisions framed so as to facilitate the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship by Jews who take up their permanent residence in Palestine.[143]
Jewish national home
In 1919, the general secretary (and future President) of the Zionist Organisation, Nahum Sokolow, published History of Zionism (1600–1918). He also represented the Zionist Organisation at the Paris Peace Conference.
Nahum Sokolow, History of Zionism[144]
One of the objectives of British administration was to give effect to the Balfour Declaration, which was also set out in the preamble of the mandate, as follows:
Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the
national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.[145]
The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine said the Jewish National Home, which derived from the formulation of Zionist aspirations in the 1897
In March 1930, Lord Passfield, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, had written a Cabinet Paper[148] which said:
In the Balfour Declaration there is no suggestion that the Jews should be accorded a special or favoured position in Palestine as compared with the Arab inhabitants of the country, or that the claims of Palestinians to enjoy self-government (subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory as foreshadowed in Article XXII of the Covenant) should be curtailed in order to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people." ... Zionist leaders have not concealed and do not conceal their opposition to the grant of any measure of self-government to the people of Palestine either now or for many years to come. Some of them even go so far as to claim that that provision of Article 2 of the Mandate constitutes a bar to compliance with the demand of the Arabs for any measure of self-government. In view of the provisions of Article XXII of the Covenant and of the promises made to the Arabs on several occasions that claim is inadmissible.
The League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission took the position that the Mandate contained a dual obligation. In 1932 the Mandates Commission questioned the representative of the Mandatory on the demands made by the Arab population regarding the establishment of self-governing institutions, in accordance with various articles of the mandate, and in particular Article 2. The chairman noted that "under the terms of the same article, the mandatory Power had long since set up the Jewish National Home".[149]
In 1937, the Peel Commission, a British Royal Commission headed by Earl Peel, proposed solving the Arab–Jewish conflict by partitioning Palestine into two states. The two main Jewish leaders, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion, had convinced the Zionist Congress to approve equivocally the Peel recommendations as a basis for more negotiation.[47][48][49][150] The US Consul General at Jerusalem told the State Department that the Mufti had refused the principle of partition and declined to consider it. The Consul said that the Emir Abdullah urged acceptance on the ground that realities must be faced, but wanted modification of the proposed boundaries and Arab administrations in the neutral enclave. The Consul also noted that Nashashibi sidestepped the principle, but was willing to negotiate for favourable modifications.[151]
A collection of private correspondence published by David Ben Gurion contained a letter written in 1937 which explained that he was in favour of partition because he did not envision a partial Jewish state as the end of the process. Ben Gurion wrote "What we want is not that the country be united and whole, but that the united and whole country be Jewish." He explained that a first-class Jewish army would permit Zionists to settle in the rest of the country with or without the consent of the Arabs.[152] Benny Morris said that both Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion saw partition as a stepping stone to further expansion and the eventual takeover of the whole of Palestine.[153] Former Israeli Foreign Minister and historian Schlomo Ben Ami writes that 1937 was the same year that the "Field Battalions" under Yitzhak Sadeh wrote the "Avner Plan", which anticipated and laid the groundwork for what would become in 1948, Plan D. It envisioned going far beyond any boundaries contained in the existing partition proposals and planned the conquest of the Galilee, the West Bank, and Jerusalem.[154]
In 1942, the
In 1946 an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry noted that the demand for a Jewish State went beyond the obligations of either the Balfour Declaration or the Mandate and had been expressly disowned by the Chairman of the Jewish Agency as recently as 1932.
Land ownership
After transition to the British rule, much of the agricultural land in Palestine (about one third of the whole territory) was still owned by the same landowners as under Ottoman rule, mostly powerful Arab clans and local Muslim sheikhs. Other lands had been held by foreign Christian organisations (most notably the Greek Orthodox Church), as well as Jewish private and Zionist organisations, and to lesser degree by small minorities of Baháʼís, Samaritans and Circassians.
As of 1931, the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine was 26,625,600 dunams (26,625.6 km2), of which 8,252,900 dunams (8,252.9 km2) or 33% were arable.[157] Official statistics show that Jews privately and collectively owned 1,393,531 dunams (1,393.53 km2), or 5.23% of Palestine's total in 1945.[158][159] The Jewish owned agricultural land was largely located in the Galilee and along the coastal plain. Estimates of the total volume of land that Jews had purchased by 15 May 1948 are complicated by illegal and unregistered land transfers, as well as by the lack of data on land concessions from the Palestine administration after 31 March 1936. According to Avneri, Jews held 1,850,000 dunams (1,850 km2) of land in 1947, or 6.94% of the total.[160] Stein gives the estimate of 2,000,000 dunams (2,000 km2) as of May 1948, or 7.51% of the total.[161] According to Fischbach, by 1948, Jews and Jewish companies owned 20% percent of all cultivable land in the country.[162]
According to Clifford A. Wright, by the end of the British Mandate period in 1948, Jewish farmers cultivated 425,450 dunams of land, while Palestinian farmers had 5,484,700 dunams of land under cultivation.[163] The 1945 UN estimate shows that Arab ownership of arable land was on average 68% of a district, ranging from 15% ownership in the Beer-Sheba district to 99% ownership in the Ramallah district. These data cannot be fully understood without comparing them to those of neighbouring countries: in Iraq, for instance, still in 1951 only 0.3 per cent of registered land (or 50 per cent of the total amount) was categorised as 'private property'.[164]
Land ownership by district
The following table shows the 1945 land ownership of mandatory Palestine by district:
District | Sub-district | Arab-owned | Jewish-owned | Public / other | ||
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Haifa | Haifa | 42% | 35% | 23% | ||
Galilee | Acre | 87% | 3% | 10% | ||
Beisan | 44% | 34% | 22% | |||
Nazareth | 52% | 28% | 20% | |||
Safad | 68% | 18% | 14% | |||
Tiberias | 51% | 38% | 11% | |||
Lydda | Jaffa | 47% | 39% | 14% | ||
Ramle | 77% | 14% | 9% | |||
Samaria | Jenin | 84% | <1% | 16% | ||
Nablus | 87% | <1% | 13% | |||
Tulkarm | 78% | 17% | 5% | |||
Jerusalem | Hebron | 96% | <1% | 4% | ||
Jerusalem | 84% | 2% | 14% | |||
Ramallah | 99% | <1% | 1% | |||
Gaza | Beersheba | 15% | <1% | 85% | ||
Gaza | 75% | 4% | 21% | |||
Data from the Land Ownership of Palestine[165] |
Land ownership by corporation
The table below shows the land ownership of Palestine by large Jewish Corporations (in square kilometres) on 31 December 1945.
Corporations | Area | |||||
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JNF | 660.10 | |||||
PICA |
193.70 | |||||
Palestine Land Development Co. Ltd. | 9.70 | |||||
Hemnuta Ltd | 16.50 | |||||
Africa Palestine Investment Co. Ltd. | 9.90 | |||||
Bayside Land Corporation Ltd. | 8.50 | |||||
Palestine Kupat Am. Bank Ltd. | 8.40 | |||||
Total | 906.80 | |||||
Data is from Survey of Palestine (vol. I, p. 245).[166][167] |
Land ownership by type
The land owned privately and collectively by Jews, Arabs and other non-Jews can be classified as urban, rural built-on, cultivable (farmed), and uncultivable. The following chart shows the ownership by Jews, Arabs and other non-Jews in each of the categories.
Category | Arab / non-Jewish ownership | Jewish ownership | Total | |||
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Urban | 76.66 | 70.11 | 146.77 | |||
Rural built-on | 36.85 | 42.33 | 79.18 | |||
Cereal (taxable) | 5,503.18 | 814.10 | 6,317.29 | |||
Cereal (not taxable) | 900.29 | 51.05 | 951.34 | |||
Plantation | 1,079.79 | 95.51 | 1,175.30 | |||
Citrus | 145.57 | 141.19 | 286.76 | |||
Banana | 2.30 | 1.43 | 3.73 | |||
Uncultivable | 16,925.81 | 298.52 | 17,224.33 | |||
Total | 24,670.46 | 1,514.25 | 26,184.70 | |||
Data is from Survey of Palestine (vol. II, p. 566).[167][168] By the end of 1946, Jewish ownership had increased to 1624 km2.[169] |
List of Mandatory land laws
- Land Transfer Ordinance of 1920
- 1926 Correction of Land Registers Ordinance
- Land Settlement Ordinance of 1928
- Land Transfer Regulations of 1940
In February 1940, the British Government of Palestine promulgated the Land Transfer Regulations which divided Palestine into three regions with different restrictions on land sales applying to each. In Zone "A", which included the hill-country of Judea as a whole, certain areas in the Jaffa sub-District, and in the Gaza District, and the northern part of the Beersheba sub-District, new agreements for sale of land other than to a Palestinian Arab were forbidden without the High Commissioner's permission. In Zone "B", which included the Jezreel Valley, eastern Galilee, a parcel of coastal plain south of Haifa, a region northeast of the Gaza District, and the southern part of the Beersheba sub-District, sale of land by a Palestinian Arab was forbidden except to a Palestinian Arab with similar exceptions. In the "free zone", which consisted of Haifa Bay, the coastal plain from Zikhron Ya'akov to Yibna, and the neighborhood of Jerusalem, there were no restrictions. The reason given for the regulations was that the Mandatory was required to "ensur[e] that the rights and positions of other sections of the population are not prejudiced", and an assertion that "such transfers of land must be restricted if Arab cultivators are to maintain their existing standard of life and a considerable landless Arab population is not soon to be created"[170]
Demographics
British censuses and estimations
In 1920, the majority of the approximately 750,000 people in this multi-ethnic region were Arabic-speaking Muslims, including a Bedouin population (estimated at 103,331 at the time of the 1922 census[171] and concentrated in the Beersheba area and the region south and east of it), as well as Jews (who accounted for some 11% of the total) and smaller groups of Druze, Syrians, Sudanese, Somalis, Circassians, Egyptians, Copts, Greeks, and Hejazi Arabs:
- The first censusof 1922 showed a population of 757,182, of whom 78% were Muslim, 11% Jewish and 10% Christian.
- The second census, of 1931, gave a total population of 1,035,154 of whom 73.4% were Muslim, 16.9% Jewish and 8.6% Christian.
A discrepancy between the two censuses and records of births, deaths and immigration, led the authors of the second census to postulate the illegal immigration of about 9,000 Jews and 4,000 Arabs during the intervening years.[172]
There were no further censuses but statistics were maintained by counting births, deaths and migration. By the end of 1936 the total population was approximately 1,300,000, the Jews being estimated at 384,000. The Arabs had also increased their numbers rapidly, mainly as a result of the cessation of the military conscription imposed on the country by the Ottoman Empire, the campaign against malaria and a general improvement in health services. In absolute figures their increase exceeded that of the Jewish population, but proportionally, the latter had risen from 13 per cent of the total population at the census of 1922 to nearly 30 per cent at the end of 1936.[173]
Some components such as illegal immigration could only be estimated approximately. The White Paper of 1939, which placed immigration restrictions on Jews, stated that the Jewish population "has risen to some 450,000" and was "approaching a third of the entire population of the country". In 1945, a demographic study showed that the population had grown to 1,764,520, comprising 1,061,270 Muslims, 553,600 Jews, 135,550 Christians and 14,100 people of other groups.
Year | Total | Muslim | Jewish | Christian | Other |
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1922 | 752,048 | 589,177 (78%) |
83,790 (11%) |
71,464 (10%) |
7,617 (1%) |
1931 | 1,036,339 | 761,922 (74%) |
175,138 (17%) |
89,134 (9%) |
10,145 (1%) |
1945 | 1,764,520 | 1,061,270 (60%) |
553,600 (31%) |
135,550 (8%) |
14,100 (1%) |
Average compounded population growth rate per annum, 1922–1945 |
3.8% | 2.6% | 8.6% | 2.8% | 2.7% |
By district
The following table gives the religious demography of each of the 16 districts of the Mandate in 1945.
Demography of Palestine in 1945 by district[174] | ||||||||
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District | Sub-District | Muslim | Jewish | Christian | Total | |||
Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |||
Haifa | Haifa | 95,970 | 38% | 119,020 | 47% | 33,710 | 13% | 253,450 |
Galilee | Acre | 51,130 | 69% | 3,030 | 4% | 11,800 | 16% | 73,600 |
Beisan | 16,660 | 67% | 7,590 | 30% | 680 | 3% | 24,950 | |
Nazareth | 30,160 | 60% | 7,980 | 16% | 11,770 | 24% | 49,910 | |
Safad | 47,310 | 83% | 7,170 | 13% | 1,630 | 3% | 56,970 | |
Tiberias | 23,940 | 58% | 13,640 | 33% | 2,470 | 6% | 41,470 | |
Lydda | Jaffa | 95,980 | 24% | 295,160 | 72% | 17,790 | 4% | 409,290 |
Ramle | 95,590 | 71% | 31,590 | 24% | 5,840 | 4% | 134,030 | |
Samaria | Jenin | 60,000 | 98% | negligible | <1% | 1,210 | 2% | 61,210 |
Nablus | 92,810 | 98% | negligible | <1% | 1,560 | 2% | 94,600 | |
Tulkarm | 76,460 | 82% | 16,180 | 17% | 380 | 1% | 93,220 | |
Jerusalem | Hebron | 92,640 | 99% | 300 | <1% | 170 | <1% | 93,120 |
Jerusalem | 104,460 | 41% | 102,520 | 40% | 46,130 | 18% | 253,270 | |
Ramallah | 40,520 | 83% | negligible | <1% | 8,410 | 17% | 48,930 | |
Gaza | Beersheba | 6,270 | 90% | 510 | 7% | 210 | 3% | 7,000 |
Gaza | 145,700 | 97% | 3,540 | 2% | 1,300 | 1% | 150,540 | |
Total | 1,076,780 | 58% | 608,230 | 33% | 145,060 | 9% | 1,845,560 |
Government and institutions
Under the terms of the August 1922 Palestine Order in Council, the Mandate territory was divided into administrative regions known as
Britain continued the millet system of the Ottoman Empire whereby all matters of a religious nature and personal status were within the jurisdiction of Muslim courts and the courts of other recognised religions, called confessional communities. The High Commissioner established the Orthodox Rabbinate and retained a modified millet system which only recognised eleven religious communities: Muslims, Jews and nine Christian denominations (none of which were Christian Protestant churches). All those who were not members of these recognised communities were excluded from the millet arrangement. As a result, there was no possibility, for example, of marriages between confessional communities, and there were no civil marriages. Personal contacts between communities were nominal.
Apart from the Religious Courts, the judicial system was modelled on the British one, having a High Court with appellate jurisdiction and the power of review over the Central Court and the Central Criminal Court. The five consecutive Chief Justices were:
- Sir Thomas Haycraft (1921–1927)[176]
- Sir Michael McDonnell (1927–1936)[176]
- Sir Harry Trusted[177] (1936–1941; knighted in 1938) (afterwards Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States, 1941)
- Frederick Gordon-Smith (1941–1944)[178]
- Sir William Fitzgerald (1944–1948)[179]
The local newspaper
Economy
Between 1922 and 1947, the annual growth rate of the Jewish sector of the economy was 13.2%, mainly due to immigration and foreign capital, while that of the Arab was 6.5%. Per capita, these figures were 4.8% and 3.6% respectively. By 1936, Jews earned 2.6 times as much as Arabs.[180] Compared to Arabs in other countries, Palestinian Arabs earned slightly more.[181]
The
The country's largest industrial zone was in Haifa, where many housing projects were built for employees.[183]
On the scale of the UN Human Development Index determined for around 1939, of 36 countries, Palestinian Jews were placed 15th, Palestinian Arabs 30th, Egypt 33rd and Turkey 35th.[184] The Jews in Palestine were mainly urban, 76.2% in 1942, while the Arabs were mainly rural, 68.3% in 1942.[185] Overall, Khalidi concludes that Palestinian Arab society, while overmatched by the Yishuv, was as advanced as any other Arab society in the region and considerably more than several.[186]
Education
Under the British Mandate, the country developed economically and culturally. In 1919, the Jewish community founded a centralised Hebrew school system, and the following year established the
There were several attempts by the Arab Palestinians to establish an Arab higher education institution, starting from the 1920s, but it did not materialise. Israeli historian Ilan Pappé attributed this to "Zionist pressure, British anti-Arab racism, and lack of resources." He added that "the colonial mentality of the British authorities who deemed the Palestinians yet another colonized people who had to be oppressed, while regarding the Zionist settlers as fellow colonialists, feared that such a university would enhance the Palestinian national movement."[187]
Literacy rates in 1932 were 86% for the Jews compared to 22% for the Palestinian Arabs, but Arab literacy rates steadily increased thereafter. By comparison, Palestinian Arab literacy rates were higher than those of Egypt and Turkey, but lower than in Lebanon.[188]
Gallery
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General Sir Edmund Allenby's final attacks of the Palestine Campaign gave Britain control of the area.
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General Allenby enteringfield marshal, in April 1919)
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The surrender of Jerusalem by the Ottomans to the British on 9 December 1917 following theBattle of Jerusalem
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Main post office, Jaffa Road, Jerusalem
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The Palestine Archaeological Museum (PAM; known since 1967 as theRockefeller Archaeological Museum), built in Jerusalem during the British Mandate
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Main post office, Jaffa
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TheAnglo-Palestine Bank
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The Western Wall, 1933
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Supreme Military Tribunal of the British Mandate, Kiryat Shmuel, Jerusalem
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YMCA in Jerusalem, built during the British Mandate
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"Bevingrad" in Jerusalem, Russian Compound behind barbed wire
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Mandate-era pillar box, Jerusalem
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1941 currency coin
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Movement and curfew pass, issued under the authority of the British Military Commander, East Palestine, 1946
See also
- Mandatory Palestine passport
- Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925
- History of Palestinian journalism
- History of agriculture in Palestine
- Palestine Command
- Palestine pound
- High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan
- Israeli Declaration of Independence
- List of post offices in the British Mandate of Palestine
- Postage stamps and postal history of Palestine
Notes
- Arabic: فلسطين الانتدابية Filasṭīn al-Intidābiyah; Hebrew: פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) Pāleśtīnā (E.Y.), where "E.Y." indicates ’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl, the Land of Israel)
- ^ Historian Nur Masalha describes the "British preoccupation with Palestine" and the large increase in European books, articles, travelogues and geographical publications during the 18th and 19th centuries.[13]
- ^ From Himmler:
From Ribbentrop:The National Socialist movement of Greater Germany has, since its inception, inscribed upon its flag the fight against the world Jewry. It has therefore followed with particular sympathy the struggle of freedom-loving Arabs, especially in Palestine, against Jewish interlopers. In the recognition of this enemy and of the common struggle against it lies the firm foundation of the natural alliance that exists between the National Socialist Greater Germany and the freedom-loving Muslims of the whole world. In this spirit I am sending you on the anniversary of the infamous Balfour declaration my hearty greetings and wishes for the successful pursuit of your struggle until the final victory.
I am sending my greetings to your eminence and to the participants of the meeting held today in the Reich capital under your chairmanship. Germany is linked to the Arab nation by old ties of friendship, and today we are united more than ever before. The elimination of the socalled Jewish national home and the liberation of all Arab countries from the oppression and exploitation of the Western powers is an unchangeable part of the Great German Reich policy. Let the hour not be far off when the Arab nation will be able to build its future and find unity in full independence.
- ^ For example, Radio Palestine broadcast the comments of an Egyptian writer who said, "The war is between the lofty and humane values represented by England and the forces of darkness represented by the Nazis."[62]
- ^ A British recruiting poster in Arabic, published in the Falastin newspaper in January 1942, read: "She couldn't stop thinking about contribution and sacrifice, she felt ongoing pride and exaltation of spirit – when she did what she saw as her sacred duty for her nation and its sons. When your country is crying out to you and asking for your service, when your country makes it plain that our Arab men need your love and support, and when your country reminds you of how cruel the enemy is – when your country is calling you, can you stand by and do nothing?"[62]
- ^ p. 50, at 1947 "Haj Amin al-Husseini went one better: he denounced also the minority report, which, in his view, legitimized the Jewish foothold in Palestine, a "partition in disguise", as he put it."; p. 66, at 1946 "The League demanded independence for Palestine as a "unitary" state, with an Arab majority and minority rights for the Jews. The AHC went one better and insisted that the proportion of Jews to Arabs in the unitary state should stand at one to six, meaning that only Jews who lived in Palestine before the British Mandate be eligible for citizenship"; p. 67, at 1947 "The League's Political Committee met in Sofar, Lebanon, on 16–19 September, and urged the Palestine Arabs to fight partition, which it called "aggression", "without mercy". The League promised them, in line with Bludan, assistance "in manpower, money and equipment" should the United Nations endorse partition."; p. 72, at Dec 1947 "The League vowed, in very general language, "to try to stymie the partition plan and prevent the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine,"[77]
- ^ "The Arabs rejected the United Nations Partition Plan so that any comment of theirs did not specifically concern the status of the Arab section of Palestine under partition but rather rejected the scheme in its entirety."[78]
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- El-Eini, Roza. Mandated landscape: British imperial rule in Palestine 1929–1948 (Routledge, 2004).
- Galnoor, Itzhak. Partition of Palestine, The: Decision Crossroads in the Zionist Movement (SUNY Press, 2012).
- Hanna, Paul Lamont, "British Policy in Palestine Archived 1 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine", Washington, D.C., American Council on Public Affairs, (1942)
- Harris, Kenneth. Attlee (1982) pp 388–400.
- Kamel, Lorenzo. "Whose Land? Land Tenure in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Palestine", "British Journal of Middle Eastern studies" (April 2014), 41, 2, pp. 230–242.
- Miller, Rory, ed. Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years (2010)
- Morgan, Kenneth O.The People's Peace: British history 1945 – 1990 (1992) 49–52.
- Ravndal, Ellen Jenny. "Exit Britain: British Withdrawal From the Palestine Mandate in the Early Cold War, 1947–1948", Diplomacy and Statecraft, (Sept 2010) 21#3 pp. 416–433.
- Roberts, Nicholas E. "Re‐Remembering the Mandate: Historiographical Debates and Revisionist History in the Study of British Palestine." History Compass 9.3 (2011): 215–230. online[dead link].
- Sargent, Andrew. " The British Labour Party and Palestine 1917–1949" (PhD thesis, University of Nottingham, 1980) online Archived 25 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- Shelef, Nadav G. "From 'Both Banks of the Jordan' to the 'Whole Land of Israel:' Ideological Change in Revisionist Zionism." Israel Studies 9.1 (2004): 125–148. Online Archived 5 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- Sinanoglou, Penny. "British Plans for the Partition of Palestine, 1929–1938." Historical Journal 52.1 (2009): 131–152. online Archived 10 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- Wright, Quincy, The Palestine Problem, Political Science Quarterly, 41#3 (1926), pp. 384–412, online Archived 1 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
External links
- Media related to British Mandate of Palestine at Wikimedia Commons