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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth survey of Britain's Mandate in Palestine, an issue crucial to understanding the continuing atmosphere of mistrust and violence in the region that continues to the present. At the conclusion of the First World War (191418), the League of Nations awarded a Mandate to Great Britain, which entailed governing a part of the defunct Ottoman Empire, a part which became known as Palestine. The Mandate, empowering Britain to govern this area for an unspecified period, had as one of its main objectives the understanding that Britain would assist the Zionist Movement in the creation of a Homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. During the thirty years that Britain ruled Palestine, it made no serious effort to carry out this commitment. The author discusses a variety of reasons for this failure, but the greatest obstacle preventing it from fulfilling its Mandate was that Britain completely miscalculated the reaction of the large Arab majority in the country. I
Trade ReviewThe arguments presented in Britain's Unfulfilled Mandate for Palestine are new—in some cases, renewed—and important. For many years, the classical Zionist narrative posited a struggle between those striving for a Jewish State and the British administration of Palestine. At the same time, in the Palestinian and other Arab versions, the British were the villains and the Mandate the tool for the creation of Israel. Nick Reynold returns to a more balanced and nuanced account, whereby the British role was not manifestly pro-Zionist, but alternated between pro-Jewish and pro-Arab policies. Reynold has researched the subject with admirable thoroughness, and his tone is balanced and fair. All in all, he gives the reader a detailed and accurate picture. -- Daniel Gavron, author of Holy Land Mosaic: Stories of Cooperation and Coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians
Table of ContentsCHAPTER ONE: From Whence the Mandate Came CHAPTER TWO: Getting Off to a Bad Start in Palestine CHAPTER THREE: The New Samuel Broom Sweeps Clean! CHAPTER FOUR: The Palestinian Arabs Set Out to Torpedo the Mandate CHAPTER FIVE: Herbert Samuel - Part Two CHAPTER SIX: Seeking a Jewish-Arab Entente 1924-1929 CHAPTER SEVEN: The Second and Third British High Commissioners for Palestine CHAPTER EIGHT: Whither Britain's Commitment to Zionism? CHAPTER NINE: The Battle between the Palestine Administration and the Jewish Agency (over Immigration, Land and Jobs) CHAPTER TEN: The Tables Begin to Turn CHAPTER ELEVEN: Appeasement Rules the Waves CHAPTER TWELVE: Would There Be Life after the 1939 White Paper?
