people
Can be applied to those who use Arabic as their language and identify with Arab causes and Arab culture
Arabs
Two of Britain's objectives by involving themselves in the middle east
- protecting access to trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean
-maintaining stability in Iran and the Persian Gulf,
-Guaranteeing the integrity of the Ottoman Empire.
-Suez Canal
The British occupation of territories previously ruled by the Ottoman Empire 1918-1948
British Mandate
Arab response to the Sykes-Picot agreement
British Promised Palestine freedom from Ottoman Empire and helped them lead a revolt against Ottoman forces.
They felt betrayed by Britain and felt that their freedom from colonialism was in jeopardy.
WWI
Originally referred to members of the tribe Judah (Son of Jacob-son of Isaac). Not a particular nationality or race. All have common origin culture and destiny.
Jewish
Two reasons why the secret agreement between Arab community in Palestine and the British
Protect Suez Canal;Link between Britain, India and British Empire east of Suez Canal
Establish Allies within the region
May 19, 1916, France and Britain divided up the Arab territories of the former Ottoman Empire into spheres of influence.
Sykes-Picot agreement
Impacts of the Balfour Declaration within Palestine
Many Arabs, in Palestine were outraged by their failure to receive the nationhood and self-government they had been led to expect in return for their participation in the war against Turkey.
Jewish population in Palestine increased dramatically, along with the instances of Jewish-Arab violence.
League of Nations decision of Palestine after WWI
League of Nations said that Palestine was not ready for independence. it was given to England as a mandate, which was like a guardianship of a temporary nature. The goal was to eventually give the colony independence.
Believe they are the native peoples of the land. Israelis were intruders occupying land by force, immoral people
Palestinians
What was the British reason for constructing the Sykes -Picot Agreement.
Wanted complete control over the Suez canal. Wanted to extend colonial power into the middle east, Palestine has access to ports.
Agreement promising a homeland for the Jewish people within the region of Palestine
Balfour Declaration
Zionist response to the Paris Peace Conference and League of Nations British Mandate
Giving it to England it raised the hopes of the Zionists and hopes of the Jewish people generally to soaring heights. The formation of the Jewish state would be a possibility under the British Mandate because of the Balfour Agreement.
U.S response to a Jewish homeland after WWII
President Truman requested that the British grant 100,000 visas to Jews to enter Palestine, under the British Mandate.
Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the ancient homeland of the Jews (Hebrew: Eretz Yisraʾel, “the Land of Israel”)
Zionists
Responsibilities of British after WWI and Paris Peace conference
Britain was entrusted with the temporary administration of Palestine, with the understanding that it would work on behalf of both its Jewish and Arab inhabitants.
Document formalised the creation of two British protectorates in 1923.
Palestine, to include a national home for the Jewish people, under direct British rule
Transjordan, an Emirate governed semi-autonomously from Britain, under the rule of the Hashemite family.
British Mandate
Arab response to the British Mandate
Arabs were angered by Britain’s failure to fulfill its promise to create an independent Arab state
Many opposed British and French control as a violation of their right to self-determination. The rising tide of European Jewish immigration, land purchases and settlement in Palestine generated increasing resistance by Palestinian Arab peasants, journalists and political figures. They feared that this would lead eventually to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.Palestinian Arabs opposed the British Mandate because it hindered their aspirations for self-rule, and opposed massive Jewish immigration because it threatened their position in the country.
Britain wanted to withdraw from influence in the middle east to focus on homefront reconstruction after the war.
Appealed to the UN to help solve the issue of Palestine. Under the Mandate Britain is solely responsible for the overseeing of Palestine. UN is the only power to be able to intervene
Resolution 181
Member of the Zionist federation who held extreme influence within the British parliament and solidified the Balfour agreement.
Lord Walter Rothschild
After WWII, Britain relinquished all governance of Palestine to
the United Nations
Put in place after the Arab revolt in 1936-39 to appease Jewish immigration debates
White Paper agreement.
Limit Jewish immigration to Palestine to 6,000
The Arab Response to the Partition of Palestine
Arab nations reject the Partition and the establishment of a Jewish State. It increased tension to a full escalation of conflict in 1948 and the War for independence/Al Nakba
Founder of the Zionist Federation
Theodor Hertzl