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First Zionist Congress
The first Zionist Congress was called by Theodor Herzl as a symbolic Parliament for those in sympathy with the implementation of Zionist goals. Herzl had planned to hold the gathering in Munich, but due to local Jewish opposition he transferred the gathering to Basel, Switzerland. The Congress took place in the concert hall of the Basel Municipal Casino on August 29, 1897.
There is some dispute as to the exact number of participants at the First Zionist Congress; however, the approximate figure -
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McMhon - Hussein Correspondance
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The Sykes - Picot Agreement
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The Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 (2nd November) was a letter from the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The letter was a sign of support from the British government to the Zionist federation that a Jewish state would be set up in Palestine. -
San Remo Conference
The San Remo Conference was an international meeting of the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council, held in Sanremo, Italy, from 19 to 26 April 1920.
It was attended by the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I who were represented by the prime ministers of Britain (David Lloyd George), France (Alexandre Millerand) and Italy (Francesco Nitti) and by Japan's Ambassador K. Matsui.
It determined the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-r -
Riots in Jerusalem
The 1929 Palestine riots, also known as the Western Wall Uprising, the 1929 Massacres, Meora'ot Tarpat, lit. Events of 5689 or the Buraq Uprising refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence. During the week of riots 116 Muslims and 133 Jews were killed and 232 Arabs and 198 Jews were injured and treated in hospital. The injured Jews and their destroyed -
Palestine Riots
General strike in Palestine started in April 1936-39 and was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandate Palestine against British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration. It broke out in Jaffa commencing a three-year period of violence and civil strife in Palestine that is known as the Arab Revolt. The Arab Higher Committee, headed by the Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, led the campaign of terrorism against Jewish and British targets.
The Arabs began by proclaiming an Arab general str -
The Peel Commision
The violence of the Arab Revolt starting in 1936 led Britain to set up a new Royal Commission (the Peel Commission) in to examine the conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine. A long term solution was needed for the political future of Palestine. The Jewish Homeland contemplated by the Mandate could develop as an independent state, a part of a federal state or within a binational territorial state. And what should be done with the Arabs, still the majority of the population? Should they be g -
The White Paper Forsees the End of Jewish Immigration
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UN approves partition in palestine
On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly approved a plan to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict by partitioning Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Each state would comprise three major sections, linked by extraterritorial crossroads; the Arab state would also have an enclave at Jaffa. With about 32% of the population, the Jews would get 56% of the land, though this did not add significantly to the amount of arable land, and was considered insufficient to feed the ex