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Peel Commission
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Primary Sources
Peel Commission
The application to Palestine of the Mandate System...implied the belief that...the Arabs and the Jews
respectively would prove to be mutually compatible.... That belief has not been justified, and we see no hope of its being justified in the future….
Steps should be taken to prohibit the purchase of land by Jews within the Arab Area or by Arabs with the Jewish Area…. No Jewish immigration into the Arab Area should be permitted.
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Khalidi Excerpt
"Whatever be the future of Palestine it is not now an “independent nation,” nor is it yet on the way to become one." - Balfour
My explanation: Balfour believed that Palestine would never become an independent nation, but the peel commission recognized that Palestine must be alone
Secondary Sources
My explanation: If the Arabs agreed they would have been sent to their rightful territory peacefully, instead, in 1948, 300,000 were forcefully displaced
"The transfer of some 225,000 Arabs...But if the Arabs objected, the transfer should be implemented by the British, "in the last resort" by compulsion"
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Arab groups argued that they represented the majority of the population in certain regions and should be granted more territory. They began to form volunteer armies throughout Palestine."
Jewish leaders accepted the plan, but many Palestinian Arabs—some of whom had been actively fighting British and Jewish interests in the region since the 1920s—vehemently opposed it.
"In 1947, after more than two decades of British rule, the United Nations proposed a plan to partition Palestine into two sections: an independent Jewish state and an independent Arab state. The city of Jerusalem, which was claimed as a capital by both Jews and Palestinian Arabs, was to be an international territory with a special status.
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