Mandate | Britain Palestine Project: Recognition is the Beginning

The legal vacuum Britain created: how Britain failed its sacred trust of civilisation towards the Palestinian people

Events, PastSeptember 21, 2022

By John McHugo Talk given at Abandoning Palestine conference, May 2022. I After the First World War, Britain wanted Palestine for its own imperial purposes: to strengthen its control of the Suez Canal, to provide a land bridge from Egypt to Iraq, and to fulfil its promise in the 1917 Balfour Declaration to facilitate the…

The Balfour Declaration - Bernard Regan, cover image on a landscape background with an image taken from the cover

Book review: The Balfour Declaration – Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine by Bernard Regan

Balfour Declaration, Book Reviews, Mandate Period, McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, Pre-Balfour Declaration, Zionism DebateNovember 11, 2019

Bernard Regan shows us what Britain did (and what Britain thought it was doing) by issuing the Balfour Declaration, by incorporating it into the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, and by governing Palestine in a way intended to implement it.