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Pre-State Israel (Palestine/Eretz Israel)

(1517 - 1948)

Reference

International Relations

Arab-Jewish Relations

Ottoman & British Rule

Atlit Prison Break (1945)
The British Mandate (1922-1947)
During World War I (1914-1918)
Jewish Immigration to Palestine
The Mahane Yehuda Police Station
Nebi Samwil Photos (1917)
The Safed City Police Station
Special Session of GA on Palestine (1947)
Under Ottoman Rule (1517-1917)
- Ottoman Rule [Map]
U.S., Polish and Swedish Consulates Bombed Over Partition
When Churchill Severed Transjordan From Palestine

Primary Source Documents

Eleanor Roosevelt: My Round-the-World Adventures (March 1, 1958)
CIA Report on Possible Developments in Palestine Following Partition Vote (February 28, 1948)
Statement by UK Foreign Secretary Bevin
U.S. Proposes Temporary Trusteeship
CIA Report on the Consequences of Partition (November 28, 1947)
CIA Report on Palestine Before Partition (October 20, 1947)
CIA Report on Situation in the Mediterranean and the Near East (October 17, 1947)
Martin Buber's Open Letter to Gandhi
Robert Kennedy's Reports from Palestine
Roosevelt-King Saud Correspondence
OSS on Arab Opposition of U.S. Support of Zionists (April 16, 1943)
Speech: The Jewish Homeland and the Palestine Mandate (July 6, 1939)
Convention Between the U.S. and Great Britain Regarding Palestine
Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence
The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
The Weizmann-Faisal Agreement
Zionist Organization Statement on Palestine

Important Figures

Committees & Conferences

The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
The Balfour Declaration (1917)
King-Crane Commission (1919)
San Remo Conference (1920)
- Jewish National Home Determined by San Remo Conference [map]
- Minutes of Palestine Meeting of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers
The Shaw Commission (1930)
- The Hope-Simpson Report (1930)
The Peel Commission (1937)
The St. James Conference (1939)
The Biltmore Conference (1942)
The Anglo-American Committee (1946)

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