After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in WWI, the British gained control of Palestine in 1920 forming ‘Mandatory Palestine’. They held control until 1948. One of the major battles the British government had while governing Palestine was balancing Arab and Jewish interests: it must hav…
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In our first article we saw that the promise of a ‘Homeland’ in the 1922 White Paper was redefined as a ‘Community,’ softening the British commitment to the establishment of the state of Israel. As Bible believers, this is just another detail that makes the fact that Israel is a co…
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The 1930 Passfield Paper was Britain’s attempt to curb the growing Jewish migration in a hope to please the Arab leaders. However, the ever-increasing Jewish persecution in central and eastern Europe meant that Jewish migration (legal or not) was still on the rise. In 1935 the Jewish annual migrat…
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