Palestine: The Reality: The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration
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ISBN-13: | 9781566560245 |
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Publisher: | Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 04/26/2017 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 800 |
Sales rank: | 459,382 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface Andy Simons xvii
New Introduction Ghada Karmi xxi
Author's introduction, with maps from the 1939 edition xxix
1 Lord Northcliffe 1
2 The Great Arab race
The possession of Palestine necessary for its expansion 17
3 The Zionist movement an intrusion upon a previous Arab movement
The modern Arab renaissance
The Arab preparations to overthrow Turkish rule in Syria and to re
Establish the old Arab State 23
4 The Jews in Palestine
Misuse of the term "exile"
Did they survive in Palestine?
The two Zionisms
Early Zionists
Herzl and political Zionism
Refusal to be aware of the Arabs 31
5 The Powers and the Arab National Movement
The Headship of the Movement shifts to Mecca
The Shereef Hussein
The Emir Abdullah's visit to Kitchener
War between Britain and Turkey
British negotiations for Arab support begin 47
6 The Treaty between Great Britain and the Arabs
Arab independence to be recognized and supported within frontiers including Palestine 67
7 The Progress of Zionism
Weizmann, Balfour, Sir Herbert Samuel appear
Zionist approaches to Asquith, Lloyd George and Grey
Another Manchester School
The first false step
The Grey Memorandum 93
8 Preparations for the Arab revolt
How the Arabs died in Syria
Feisal and Djemaal
The revolt starts
The Sykes
Picot treaty
The Zionist "October
Programme"
Political Zionism made a "complex problem"
Political Zionism made "a small nation." 117
9 Political Zionism's first "official" steps in London
Brandeis and Balfour
Lawrence and British pledges
Jewry versus Zionism
First arrangements for the Mandate
Jewish opposition in the U.S. to Zionism
France's recognition 139
10 How the "Balfour Declaration" was written
Its real authors
Tactics of Justice Brandeis
The "Brandeis regime"
Jewish opposition in England
Publication of the Declaration 163
11 Analysis of the Balfour Declaration
Its sham character and deceptive phraseology 179
12 Illegitimacy of the Declaration
Motives for issuing the Declaration
The Declaration as payment for services rendered 195
13 First consequences of the Balfour Declaration
Mr. Ormsby
Gore appears on the scene
Allenby's campaign
The Arabs' exact part in it
Allenby leaves the Balfour Declaration unpublished in Palestine
The reasons for this 211
14 The Zionist Commission in Palestine
Close of the War
The Arabs' military achievement
The Joint Anglo
French Proclamation promising Independence to the Arab populations 229
15 Proposals for making Palestine "a Jewish country" approved by Balfour
Zionist preparation for the Peace Conference
The siege and investment of Feisal
The "Treaty of Friendship"
The "Frankfurter letter." 251
16 The Peace Conference
The Zionist role there
Feisal's vain speech
Weizmann enounces Zionist demands
"Palestine to be as Jewish as England is English"
The private meeting of the "Big Four" at Mr. Lloyd George's flat
Mr. Lloyd George and the Hussein
McMahon treaty
President Wilson insists on sending a commission to find the desires of the Syrians 269
17 The first Arab parliament
Feisal summons the Syrian Congress
The "Damascus Programme" The Crane
King Commission's Report 293
18 Importance of the Damascus Programme and Crane
King Report
The Crane
King Report suppressed
Syria divided between France and Britain
Another letter of Feisal's
The Zionist Commission takes governmental attributes to itself
Resentment and vain appeals to London of the Army Administration 311
19 The Emir Feisal proclaimed King of Syria
He asks for recognition of Syrian independence by the Allies and cites the McMahon
Hussein pact
Fall of the Kingdom of Syria
Arabs and Jews clash in Palestine
The Chief Administrator of Palestine tells Mr. Lloyd George some truths about the country 333
20 The San Remo Conference
The covert assumption of the Mandate for Palestine by the Prime Minister
Mandatory Government illicit as no Mandate yet possible
Governmental secrecy, and its reasons
Dr. Weizmann blurts out the aims of the Premature Mandate 351
21 Mr. Lloyd George violates the Covenant of the League of Nations
The Chief Administrator of Palestine recommends the suppression of the Zionist Commission
Intervention of the United States against monopolies in Palestine
Parliament uninformed and unconsulted upon the Mandate
End of the Military Administration in Palestine
The Army judges political Zionism 369
22 The first High Commission of Palestine
Sir Herbert Samuel
The Prime Minister's equivocation
The Treaty of Sèvres
The Covenant again violated
The farcical frontier of Palestine
President Wilson's "bombshell" letter 387
23 The "Civil Government" of Palestine set up in 1920 an unlawful government
Violation by the Lloyd George Cabinet of Great Britain's pledges at The Hague
Proofs of the illegitimacy of the Palestine Government 405
24 Ersatz Israel 427
25 The granting of the Rutenberg Concessions
Suffocation of other applicants by the Government
The real aim of Zionist Concessions
The Arabs given no say in the matter 449
26 Governmental apologia for the grant of the Rutenberg Concessions A plot against the Arabs Balfour's negotiations in the United States reveal this
His suppressed paragraphs
He cajoles the Secretary of State in Washington 463
27 The Perfidy of the Government 477
28 Other endeavours to justify the Government's broken faith to the Arabs
Their refutation from official sources
Great Britain absolutely pledged to establish Arab government in Palestine 503
29 The achievement of the Arab delegates in 1921
2-Subterfuges of the "White Paper"
Lord Northcliffe in Palestine
The House of Lords censures the Cabinet's infidelity
The Treaty of Lausanne
The Mandate comes into force at last 517
30 The drafting of the Covenant
The shifts of General Smuts
Article 22 drafted so as to evade its own ends
The fate of the Vesnitch amendment 527
31 The manoeuvre of "fidelity to the Mandate"
The Mandate really written by Zionists in collaboration with the Government
The League of Nations deliberately prevented from fixing its terms 549
32 The text of the Mandate
Its important Articles all of Zionist origin 573
33 The stage-fight between Government and Zionists
The theory of two primary "obligations"
The Council of the League plays traitor The responsibility of the League in the Palestine affair 593
34 The years from before 1923 are those which matter in the Palestine Question
Irrelevance and insincerity of the argument that Zionism means prosperity
Abdication of King Hussein
The Mavrommatis case
The Government impeached at last and found guilty 605
35 Balfour's journey to Syria
More granting of Concessions
The outbreak of 1929
Another Commission
The Labour Party and Palestine 627
36 The Shaw Commission
Its Report a blow for the Government
Endeavours to destroy the effect of the Report
Sir John Hope Simpson sent to Palestine
His Report no better for the Government
Lord Passfield's White Paper 637
37 The White Paper of 1930
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald surrenders to Dr. Weizmann
The "Black Letter"
The Report of Mr. French
The growing peril of the Arab peasant being dispossessed for ever 659
38 Increase of Zionist immigration
The pretext of refuge from the German persecution
How the Legislative Council was rejected
The Great Strike of 1936
The Arab Officials' Memorial
Resignation of the Chief Justice
The Peel Commission's Report and project of Partition
Private arrangements of Mr. Ormsby
Gore and Dr. Weizmann 681
39 League "neutrality" in the Palestine question
The Palestine Government dissolves the Arab Higher Committee and exiles leaders
The Mufti escapes to the Lebanon
The Technical Commission leaves for Palestine
Mr. Malcolm MacDonald succeeds Mr. Ormsby-Gore- Foreign interference in Palestine
The Galilee-Sanjak-of-Alexandria campaign-Awaiting the Woodhead Report 705
40 Valuelessness of any solutions of the Palestine Question not granting independence to the Arabs
Impossibility and wrongfulness of any turning of Palestine into a Colony or Dominion
The question of our strategic needs in and round Palestine
The only settlement-The honour of Great Britain at stake 727
Index 749