1. Prince Faisal at Versailles, 1919
Arab Disappointment. The Balfour Declaration incorporated into British Mandate over Palestine. Iraq, Jordan and Palestine all more or less under British control. Only the Arabian peninsula truly independent.

2. The Middle East Between the Wars

3. The
British in
Palestine
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4. British Mandate in Palestine Created July, 1922
British Mandate in Palestine Created July, Transjordan divided from Palestine.

5. Jews & Arabs in Palestine, 1920
In 1920, there was 1 Jew to every 10 Arabs in Palestine.
By 1947, the ratio was 2 Arabs for every Jew.
The Arabs felt that they were losing control of their “country!”

6. Jewish Settlements: The Kibbutz System
First one founded in 1908.
Communal living.
“Make the Desert Bloom!”

7. Jewish immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate
1919
1,806
1920
8,223
1921
8,294
1922
8,685
1923
8,175
1924
13,892
1925
34,386
1926
13,855
1927
3,034
1928
2,178
1929
5,249
1930
4,944
Immigration
1931
4,075
1932
12,533
1933
37,337
1934
45,267
1935
66,472
1936
29,595
1937
10,629
1938
14,675
1939
31,195
1940
10,643
1941
4,592

8. Palestine Arab Revolt: 1936-1939
Their Goals:
An end to Jewish immigration to Palestine.
An end to the transfer of lands to Jewish owners.
A new “general representative government.”

9. The Peel Commission Partition Plan, 1937

10. British White Paper of 1939
Limited Jewish immigration to Palestine to 75,000 over the next five years.
It ended Jewish land purchases.
Independence for Palestine within 10 years.
It is NOT British policy that Palestine become a Jewish state.