Britain and Palestine: An Examination of Present British Policy in the Light of the Mandate for Palestine.

LOURIE, Arthur.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 146810

New York: The American Zionist Emergency Council, c. 1940.

Scarce printing of this study of the relationship between the Mandate for Palestine and British Policy, based on a detailed treatment by Dr. Jacob Robinson. Thin imperial octavo, original wrappers stapled as issued, tipped in to later boards. In very good condition with toning to the wrappers and boards, paperclip evidence, institutional stamps to the first and final leaves.

After the First World War, the League of Nations assigned a Mandate for the British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan, which had previously been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuries. In Palestine, the Mandate required Britain to put into effect the 1917 Balfour Declaration's "national home for the Jewish people" alongside the Palestinian Arabs, who composed the vast majority of the local population. Currently, Israeli settlements exist in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.