As a compromise, Balfour suggested 'historical connection,' and 'historical connection' it was. On the last day of the Mandate, the Jewish community there issued the Israeli Declaration of Independence. This disputed area, containing Maan, Aqaba and Petra, had originally been part of the Damascus Vilayet during Ottoman times, though boundaries had never been very precise. [7][153][154], On 3 December 1924 the U.S. signed the Palestine Mandate Convention, a bilateral treaty with Britain in which the United States "consents to the administration" (Article 1) and which dealt with eight issues of concern to the United States (including property rights and business interests). The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan, both of which had been conceded by the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I in 1918. [xxxvii] After the 192425 Saudi conquest of Hejaz, Hussein's army fled to the Ma'an region (which was then formally announced as annexed by Abdullah's Transjordan). "[32][33], Discussions about the assignment of the region's control began immediately after the war ended and continued at the Paris Peace Conference and the February 1920 Conference of London, and the assignment was made at the April 1920 San Remo conference. 12 March 1921 British memorandum explaining the situation of Transjordan: 25 March 1921 proposal, approved a week later, to include Transjordan via Article 25: The mandates come into force according to the Council of the League of Nations minutes, 29 September 1923, Documents from the time of conditional approval and effective date. [121] During the negotiations, Ismet Pasha refused to recognise or accept the mandates;[m] although they were not referenced in the final treaty, it had no impact on the implementation of the mandate policy set in motion three years earlier. [xvi] However, the Zionist Organisation Report stated that a draft was presented by the Zionist Organization to the British on 15 July 1919. The principle of administration as a "sacred trust of civilisation" was designed to prevent a practice of imperial exploitation of the mandated territory in contrast to former colonial habits. It was further agreed that no British troops would be stationed there With this agreement, the division of the Fertile Crescent into separate states dominated by either Britain or France was completed. This proposed that three sons of Sharif Hussein who had since become King of the Hejaz, and his sons emirs (princes) would be installed as kings of newly created countries across the region agreed between McMahon and Hussein in 1915. ", Lloyd-George's "Aide-Memoire in Regard to the Occupation of Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia Pending the Decision in Regard to Mandates" included the following: "1. In pursuance of the policy, embodied in Article 25, Lord Balfour invited the Council to pass a series of resolutions which modified the mandate as regards those territories. Introduction Contents [ hide] The question of Palestine was brought before the United Nations shortly after the end of the Second World War. 06 Jun 2023 14:48:25 [27], Two governing principles formed the core of the mandate system: non-annexation of the territory and its administration as a "sacred trust of civilisation" to develop the territory for the benefit of its native people. I felt instinctively that the other provisions of the Mandate might remain a dead letter, e.g, ' to place the country under such political, economic and administrative conditions as may facilitate the development of the Jewish National Home.' Excerpts relating to the creation of the first full draft of the Mandate for Palestine, from a September 1921 Zionist Organization report of the 12th Zionist Congress, the first following the Balfour Declaration. Chaim Weizmann, leader of the Zionist delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, presented a Zionist statement on 3 February 1919 that declared the Zionists' proposed borders and resources "essential for the necessary economic foundation of the country" including "the control of its rivers and their headwaters". A coalition of Arab states, allied with Palestinian factions . A particular dispute, which continues to the present,[20] was whether Palestine was part of the coastal exclusion. [207][bettersourceneeded] Neither Palestinians nor any other Arabs were involved in the discussions which determined the boundaries of Mandatory Palestine. [95] The draft was submitted to the League of Nations on 7December 1920,[101] and was published in the Times on 3 February 1921.[102]. [6][7], The British government issued the Declaration, a public statement announcing support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, on 2 November 1917. The Congress notes with satisfaction that Transjordania, which the Jewish people has always regarded as an integral part of Erez Israel, is to be again incorporated into the mandated territory of Palestine. [79][80] Between then and the end of March 1921, Abdullah's army occupied all of Transjordan with some local support and no British opposition. ", Curzon's 26 August 1920 telegram stated that: "His Majesty's Government have no desire to extend their responsibilities in Arab districts and must insist on strict adherence to the very limited assistance which we can offer to a native administration in Trans-jordania as stated in my telegram No. It was intended to endorse an arrangement whereby Transjordan would be added to the Palestine mandate, with Abdullah as the emir under the authority of the High Commissioner, and with the condition that the Jewish National Home provisions of the Palestine mandate would not apply there. [239], In April 1923, five months before the mandate came into force, Britain announced their intention to recognise an "independent Government" in Transjordan. We have not received what we sought, and I regret to have to tell you this. Sir Herbert (then Mr.) Samuel, Dr. Jacobson, Dr. Feiwel, Mr. Sacher (of the Manchester Guardian), Mr. Landman, and Mr. Ben Cohen were the first members. The series was presumably paid for by 'private' sponsors who support Israel but have been reported to be acting on behalf of certain sectors of Israel's leadership. The commission submitted its final report on 3 February 1922; it was approved with some caveats by the British and French governments on 7 March 1923, several months before Britain and France assumed their mandatory responsibilities on 29 September 1923. Yet despite its unintentional and haphazard development, the modern British Parliament is one of the oldest continuous . I confess that for me this was the most important part of the Mandate. But another anniversary that fell this year - that of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1948, a seminal moment in a conflict that continues to this day - has been largely. [37][38] The Hashemites had fought with the British during the war, and received an annual subsidy from Britain; according to the confidential appendix to the August 1919 King-Crane Commission report, "the French resent the payment by the English to the Emir Faisal of a large monthly subsidy, which they claim covers a multitude of bribes, and enables the British to stand off and show clean hands while Arab agents do dirty work in their interest. Earlier in the day, at 4:00 p.m., David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the creation of the State of Israel and became its first prime minister. [30], The process of establishing the mandates consisted of two phases: the formal removal of sovereignty of the state previously controlling the territory, followed by the transfer of mandatory powers to individual states among the Allied powers. ", Biger described this meeting: "Sovereignty over the. [17][18] Whilst there was some military value in the Arab manpower and local knowledge alongside the British Army, the primary reason for the arrangement was to counteract the Ottoman declaration of jihad ("holy war") against the Allies, and to maintain the support of the 70 million Muslims in British India (particularly those in the Indian Army that had been deployed in all major theatres of the wider war). In the new year 1923, Fascist Italy sought to embarrass the Anglo-French mandate-holders at the League of Nations by championing the rights of native petitioners in the mandated territories. [216] It placed most of the Golan Heights in the French sphere, and established a joint commission to settle and mark the border. [231][232] In OETA East, Faisal had appointed a kaymakam (sub-governor) at Ma'an; the kaymakam at Aqaba, who "disregarded both Husein in Mecca and Feisal in Damascus with impunity",[233] had been instructed by Hussein to extend his authority to Ma'an. On 17 May 1922, in a discussion of the date on which the question of the Draft Mandate for Palestine should be placed on the agenda of the Council of the League of Nations, Lord Balfour informed the Council of his government's understanding of the role of the League in the creation of mandates: [the] Mandates were not the creation of the League, and they could not in substance be altered by the League. [90] A "Jewish agency" was mentioned three times: in Articles 4, 6 and 11. PRINCE BEFORE CONFERENCE Feisal's Presentation of His Case will Probably Be Referred to a Special Committee. McTague writes, "Yet another interesting aspect is the complete absence of any input from Arab sources, despite the fact that the. [56][f] At the end of September 1920, Curzon instructed an Assistant Secretary at the Foreign Office, Robert Vansittart, to leave the eastern boundary of Palestine undefined and avoid "any definite connection" between Transjordan and Palestine to leave the way open for an Arab government in Transjordan. The Palestinian delegation hoped that with Atatrk's support, they would be able to get the Balfour Declaration and mandate policy omitted from the new treaty. The addition of Transjordan was given legal form on 21 March 1921, when the British incorporated Article 25 into the Palestine Mandate. (Britain had governed the former Ottoman territory of Palestine as a mandate since 1920 as a result of the peace settlements in the aftermath of the First World War.) In Palestine, the Mandate required Britain to put into effect the Balfour Declaration's "national home for the Jewish people" alongside the Palestinian Arabs, who composed the vast majority of the local population; this requirement and others, however, would not apply to the separate Arab emirate to be established in Transjordan. Moreover, two principles that emerged in 1920 and were calculated to further define the nature of the new state, served only to further confuse matters and to generate the uncertainty of which Abdullah, Samuel and Philby later complained. [20][i] At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George told his French counterpart Georges Clemenceau and the other allies that the McMahon-Hussein correspondence was a treaty obligation. The southern region of Ma'an-Aqaba, a large area with a population of only 10,000,[230] was administered by OETA East (later the Arab Kingdom of Syria, and then Mandatory Transjordan) and claimed by the Kingdom of Hejaz. See also: Temperley, History of the Paris Peace Conference, Vol VI, pp. [q][161] With the Fascists gaining power in Italy in October 1922, new Italian Prime Minister Mussolini delayed the mandates' implementation. The New York Times article describes Balfour falling asleep during the meetings and the reaction in Palestine to the, Commitment regarding the Jewish people: the Balfour Declaration, Commitment regarding the Arab population: the McMahonHussein correspondence, Commitment to the French: the SykesPicot agreement, Commitment to the League of Nations: the mandate system, 1919: Initial Zionist-British discussions, 192122: Palestinian Arab attempted involvement, Council of the League of Nations: Mandate, Council of the League of Nations: Transjordan memorandum, National home for the Jewish people (Preamble and Articles 2, 4, 6, 7, 11), Religious and communal issues (Articles 1316 and 23), Transjordan (Article 25 and Transjordan memorandum), The day before the meeting, on 20 August, Samuel noted in his diary: "It is an entirely irregular proceeding, my going outside my own jurisdiction into a country which was Faisal's, and is still being administered by the Damascus Government, now under French influence. [177], Religious and communal guarantees, such as freedom of religion and education, were made in general terms without reference to a specific religion. 1910, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, "Territorially-based Nationalism and the Politics of Negation", "The Evolution of the Transjordan-Iraq Boundary, 191540", "Was Balfour Policy Reversible? On 19 April that year, the newly formed Arab National Committee in Nablus called on Palestinians to launch a . [101], After strenuous objection to the proposed changes, the statement concerning the historical connections of the Jews with Palestine was re-incorporated into the Mandate in December 1920. [a][42], The French privately ceded Palestine and Mosul to the British in a December 1918 amendment to the SykesPicot Agreement; the amendment was finalised at a meeting in Deauville in September 1919. 9. [86] On 21 March 1921, the Foreign and Colonial Office legal advisers decided to introduce Article 25 into the Palestine Mandate to allow for the addition of Transjordan. Although he had totally given in, Mussolini was the last to admit it. There seemed to be only two options. These were of the nature of a treaty and a constitution, which contained minority-rights clauses that provided for the rights of petition and adjudication by the World Court. Nobody set out to create Parliament. [143], Stanley Baldwin, who took over as Prime Minister on 22 May 1923, set up a cabinet subcommittee in June 1923 whose terms of reference were to "examine Palestine policy afresh and to advise the full Cabinet whether Britain should remain in Palestine and whether if she remained, the pro-Zionist policy should be continued". [viii][66] On 6 August 1920, Curzon wrote to newly appointed High Commissioner Herbert Samuel about Transjordan: "I suggest that you should let it be known forthwith that in the area south of the SykesPicot line, we will not admit French authority and that our policy for this area to be independent but in closest relations with Palestine. The movement's demands influenced the negotiators, leading to the inclusion of the Sea of Galilee, both sides of the Jordan River, Lake Hula, the Dan spring, and part of the Yarmouk River. Excerpts relating to Transjordan's inclusion in the Mandate from the 114 September 1921 12th Zionist Congress, the first following the Balfour Declaration. The object of these resolutions was to withdraw from Trans-Jordania the special provisions which were intended to provide a national home for the Jews west of the Jordan. When Churchill decided to continue British support for the Amir in late 1921, he also stated his preference to simply 'allow matters to pursue their present course' in Transjordan. "Erez Israel" added as a translation of "Palestine"; "find a national home in that country" replaced with "reconstitute Palestine as their national home"; Added that the Jewish Agency "shall have a pre-emptive right" over economic concessions; Removed article guaranteeing the property rights of religious organisations; Required the Government to recognise the Jewish Sabbath and Jewish holidays as legal days of rest. [94][j] By December 1919, they had negotiated a "compromise" draft. Weizmann noted in his memoirs that he considered the most important part of the mandate, and the most difficult negotiation, the subsequent clause in the preamble which recognised "the historical connection of the Jews with Palestine". All one can say about that point, after more than twenty-five years, is that at least Palestine has not so far been placed under a legislative council with an Arab majority but that is rather a negative brand of fulfilment of a positive injunction. [xxviii] On 16 September 1922, the League of Nations approved a British memorandum detailing its intended implementation of the clause excluding Transjordan from the articles related to Jewish settlement. After the failure of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, the 19471949 Palestine war ended with Mandatory Palestine divided among Israel, the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank and the Egyptian All-Palestine Protectorate in the Gaza Strip. ", The occasion of the Cairo Conference offered an opportunity to clarify the matter. by the Treaty of Svres] been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine, and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country;[179], In the body of the document, the Zionist Organization was mentioned in Article 4; in the September 1920 draft, a qualification was added which required that "its organisation and constitution" must be "in the opinion of the Mandatory appropriate". [150][151] Despite opposition from the State Department,[152] this was followed on 21 September 1922 by the LodgeFish Resolution, a congressional endorsement of the Balfour Declaration. "[145] Describing it as "nothing short of remarkable", international law specialist Professor John B. Quigley noted that the government was admitting to itself that its support for Zionism had been prompted by considerations having nothing to do with the merits of Zionism or its consequences for Palestine. Cassels explained, "Mussolini himself was reduced to a policy of pinpricks. Egypt occupies Gaza, and Israel holds the rest of Mandate Palestine including West Jerusalem. Nevertheless, in April the Foreign Office reviewed the Zionist Organization's draft, and they made some small but significant changes Then in July, Foreign Secretary Balfour authorised Eric Forbes-Adam to begin direct negotiations with members of the Zionist Organization, including Weizmann and Felix Frankfurter, over the wording of the text. 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