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Britain’s Unfulfilled Mandate for Palestine Britain’s Unfulfilled Mandate for Palestine Nick Reynold LEXINGTON BOOKS Lanham • Boulder • New York • London Published by Lexington Books An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowman.com 16 Carlisle Street, London W1D 3BT, United Kingdom Copyright © 2014 by Lexington Books All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reynold, Nick, author. Britain's unfulfilled mandate for Palestine / Nick Reynold. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7391-8700-5 (cloth : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-7391-8701-2 (electronic) 1. Palestine--History--1917-1948. 2. Mandates--Palestine--History--20th century. 3. Palestine--Politics and government--1917-1948. 4. Great Britain--Foreign relations--Palestine. 5. Palestine--Foreign relations--Great Britain. I. Title. DS126.R487 2014 956.94'04--dc23 2014009834 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America FOR ISAAC Abbreviations AE: Arab Executive B-G: David Ben-Gurion CO: British Colonial Office FO: British Foreign Office HC: British High Commissioner KKL/JNF: Jewish National Fund—land acquisition agency OETA: Occupied Enemy Territory Administration— Military Government in Palestine 1917–1920 PMC: Permanent Mandates Commission (Geneva) PZE: Palestine Zionist Executive VL: Va’ad Leumi (Palestine Jewish National Council) ZO: Zionist Organization Acknowledgments As a new boy in the field of writing history I have been very dependent on the encouragement and support of those people around me who urged me on. First in line is the late Jon Frankel whom I met in our undergraduate days. Our ways parted until I came to live in Israel and at that time he was a Professor of Russian History at the Hebrew University. He was instrumental in pointing me in the right direction and always had time and patience for me. My Doctoral thesis at Bar-Ilan University was overseen by Professor Moshe Gat who denied that I was his oldest ever student and treated me with kindness and understanding in my quest. Danny Gavron is a well published journalist and author to whom I turned for advice and help. It was he who led me to Rowman & Lttlefield, with whom he had enjoyed a successful relationship, and later on was constrained to write nice things about the book. At Rowman & Littlefield I always received reliable and professional co-operation at the highest level. In particular I would like to sincerely thank Marie-Claire, Sabah, Brian and Ethan. A technophobe like me always needs nursing by an individual with the answers to my desperate questions at his fingertips .To me they appear unsolvable, but to him they are inevitably speedily and easily fixed. Such an individual is Harold Hirsch- Thanks Harry. Thanks to family and friends who were entirely supportive and somewhat amazed by the challenge I had undertaken and who willingly or otherwise read the drafts, And last of all a huge thanks to Varda, who was merely inspirational. Nick Reynold Hadera 2014 I A Mandate Proposed
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