Palestine
It can be said that , from the outset, the link between European colonialism in the middle east and the Palestine question, is as strong as the link which exists between the Holy Quran and Muslims, and Jews and the Torah. The reason this statement is accurate is, because the British occupation of Palestine, from 1917 to 1947, was a direct cause of the Palestine question. To understand this point, it is necessary to examine the period in which the British were granted administrative power of Palestine by the League of Nations ,from 1917 to 1948, under the so called Mandate system. The purpose of the mandate was to make the mandated nation capable of self rule by its inhabitants, which in the case of Palestine, was Arab-Palestinians by majority. Instead the British administration in Palestine took Britain's self interests into hand and tried to create a national Jewish homeland by Implementing earlier agreements made with Zionist nations, such as the Balfour agreement, Into the mandate which gave them the right to colonize Palestine. This deprived the Palestinians of self-determination and instead made them Another British colony, which led to a Arab revolt. These factors, which must be further looked into to understand there s
This would open another chapter of conflict between the two people who came from the same tribe of Abraham. In 1920 the British opened the land registry and Jews immediately began to buy land, from the British who had taken former state lands from the Ottoman empire. The reason the Arabs had helped the British overthrow the Ottoman empire through out the middle east was because the British in correspondence with Sherif Husein ibn Ali of Mecca, the spokesmen for the Arab cause, had promised independence to the Arab nations, which included Palestine. Had the Arab-Palestinians known then that the British would take away there right of independence, they would have revolted against them, just like they had against there former Ottoman rulers. The Jews, especially the ones escaping the concentration camps in Europe and their Atrocities, had a Iron will And would take any means necessary to gain their land. The Muslims have the dome of the rock, and al-Aqsa mosque,while the Jews have temple mount and the west wall. This Palestine was one which was a very different one then the Palestine the British first had taken over in 1917. The Balfour was not fully implemented until it became incorporated into the League of Nations mandate for Palestine on July 24, 1922 under which temporary "administrative" power was given to the British over Palestine. This would be a an Arab state, since Jewish immigration would now only be limited to " 75,000 over the next five years with Arab consent needed thereafter". But by Incorporating the Balfour declaration into it, did the league of nations mandate remain a mandate or was it disguised colonialism. They drawed this plan out in the Syke-picot agreement of 1917. This would fuel Arab nationalism, and a desire by the Arabs to replace Ottoman rule. The Jews which were immigrating from Europe were determined to make Palestine a Jewish homeland and only a Jewish homeland at that. It was the longest Protest by the Arabs against the Jewish national homeland. Millions of Jews werefleeing Germany and it's surrounding area's.
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