A continuation to where we left of in part
one which showed the decline of the Ottoman empire and loss of control over
Palestine to the British whom were convinced as I have shown in part 1 that
building a Jewish state in Palestine is a necessity for the future, and the
secret memo written by the first Jewish Zionist minister in Britain Herbert
Samuel saying" it is too early to have an independent Jewish state, we
have to encourage the immigration of 3 to 4 million European Jews and plant
them between the Mohammadians"
.
1916 witnessed the famous Sayks-Pikot
between Britain and France the colonial powers at the time, agreeing on keeping
Palestine under allies control in preparation for the new Jewish state. Mark
Sykes the British foreign minister at the time had very close ties with Chaim
Weizmann the British Zionist chemist whom was in Palestine at the time buying
lands of the Palestinian Arabs with Baron Rothschild money, and dictated to him
what the Zionist organization needs in the agreement.
1917 witnessed a new British government
headed by sir Lloyd George whom was fully aware of the agreements and went to
issue a letter promising the land of Palestine to the new Jewish state. Arthur
Balfour the new foreign minister wrote and signed it and handed it over to
Baron Rothschild a senior member of the Zionist organization. On the 9th
of December 1917 General Edmund Allenby (another high British official with
close ties to Weizmann) occupied Jerusalem and accompanied him a small Jewish
contingent trained by the British army and that was a recommendation of Sir
Winston Churchill the colonies minister at the time, and among this contingent
was David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion in British uniform, latter
to become the first Prime Minister of Israel.
Image shows General Allenby sitting beside
Weizmann in a British Army parade (no Palestinian political figures shown
although the number of Jews was 5 thousand compared to 500 thousand
Palestinians at the time)
1918 witnessed the end of WWI and during
the preparations for the peace conference, President Woodrow Wilson of the USA
assembled a committee of Henry King and Charles Crane to investigate the
situation in the middle –east and they came up with a report called the
King-Crane commission report on Palestine, and here are parts of it:
-"Zionists looked forward to
a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of
Palestine, by various forms of purchase. Nearly 90% of the Palestinian
population was emphatically against the entire Zionist program. The wishes of
the local population must be taken into account and that there is widespread
anti-Zionist feeling in Palestine and Syria, and the holy nature of the land to
Christians and Moslems as well as Jews must preclude solely Jewish dominion.
-It also noted that Jews comprised
only 10% of the population of Palestine.
-"Syrians were against the
formation of a Jewish state.
-"Nor can the erection of such
a Jewish State be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon the civil and
religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine".
-"Not only you as president
but the American people as a whole should realize that if the American government
decided to support the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, they are
committing the American people to the use of force in that area, since only by
force can a Jewish state in Palestine be established or maintained."
The report was totally ignored by
the Americans as they sat down with the rest of the world in Paris and listened
to the Zionist demand which is summarized by the piece of land shown on this
map.
King
Faisal Bin-Al Hussein of Hejaz after meeting the British PM, General Allenby
and Weizmann agreed on one condition that all the Arabic countries under the
Saykes-Picot agreement take their independence, and the real engineer behind
this agreement was Edward T. Lawrence also known as Lawrence of Arabia .
1919 witnessed the first Zionist
intelligence service that used the second generation Jews whom speaks Arabic to
spy on the Palestinian's public opinion, unfriendly planed acts against the
settlements and if there are more lands for sale.
In1920 the British commissioner over
Palestine was appointed and it was none other than Herbert Samuel, he went on to implement
the secret memo he wrote to the government 5 years ago and the first thing he
did was to make Arabic, Hebrew and English as the official languages and made
sure it all included Eretz Yisrael", א״י Aleph-Yod land of Israel between brackets as shown
in the image below
He also allowed the Zionists to have their
own education system and their own army also.
1921 With the Palestinians realizing what
is happening they started to move politically even though their numbers are few
due to poor education, they managed to reach London to complain but they had a
big problem which was that you cannot keep Britain as a friend and the Zionists
as the enemy, simply because both of them are on the same side, so all their
efforts went in vain.
1925 In this year Britain sent the first
report to the league of nations regarding the achievements, and in it was 5
important points:
1 – The immigration of the Jews from Europe
reached 33,801 all were given the Palestinian nationality.
2 – the establishment of 13 settlements
3 – Tel-Aviv was given autonomy
4 – Established the workers union and
headed by a Jew named David Ben-Gurion
5 – The official opening of the Hebrew
university by Governor Herbert Samuel, General Allenby, and Weizmann
1930 with more immigrants incoming, the
Palestinians demonstrated for several days and the leaders of the
demonstrations were 3 Arab Palestinians caught and executed in June 1930 even
with pleas from Arab countries. The number of immigrants reached 175,000 that
year.
1931 In a dinner organized by the Zionist
organization headed by Weizmann to honor Lloyd George PM said jokingly "
it has been 16 years since Weizmann has recruited me in the Zionist
organization" in my opinion even if it was a joke but being a PM it speaks
volumes about justice in ruling between Arabs and Zionists in Palestine.
Graph that shows the increasing number of
immigrants which reached 62,000 in 1935
1935 The first revolt by the Palestinians
came on the hands of Izeldyeen Al-Quassam a well known religious figure whom
was ambushed by British forces and the airforce killed him in 1936 which sent
anger waves throughout the land
1936 saw a general strike throughout the
land by the Arabs, which shock the British whom immediately started group
punishments by apprehension and whoever is suspected to assist the revolution
was executed and his house razed. 200 houses were destroyed in Jaffa only and to the British this was justified
During all this period thousands of
Palestinian Arabs were moved out of the newly bought lands, so Ben-Gurion
suggested to the new British high commissioner Arthur Wauchope if it possible
to deport these people to east Jordan, the commissioner replied what an
excellent idea.
We will continue the timeline in part
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