Palestine Mandate and the Zionists Project in the British Middle-East Strategy: Incapacitating the Leadership of Jerusalem
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When the British Mandate expelled Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem in 1937, it secured a population of nearly 400,000 Jews (28% of Palestine’s population), which sufficed for Palestine to be considered Jewish, according to Zionist leader Chaïm Weizmann, who became an Israeli-British citizen and the first president of Israel when Israel was established in 1948. In March 1920, Weizmann stated as follows(Weizmann 1983, 250-263). “By a Jewish National Home I mean the creation of such conditions that as the country is developed we can pour in a considerable number of immigrants, and finally establish such a society in Palestine that Palestine shall be as Jewish as England is English, or America is American. Those were my very words at the Peace Conference, before the tribunal of all the Powers when we were asked what is meant by Jewish National Home … One million pounds approximately, must be made for the next ten years ... We now have in Palestine 10,000 productive people. If we have 50,000 or 100,000 productive people in the country, Palestine will become Jewish. In my opinion, the whole problem boils down to the first 300,000 Jews. When this number will arrive in the country, Palestine becomes Jewish. I believe the Jewish State is a feasibility that can yet in our days be made into a reality.” The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the first promise by the British Empire to provide the Jewish people a national home in Palestine and was implemented during the Mandate without interruption to achieve its final aim, a Jewish state. The British Mandate made a strategic decision to divide Palestine into three religious communities (Muslim, Christian and Jewish) rather than as a national group. The identification of the Muslim majority as “a community” similar to the Christian and Jewish minorities reduced the leadership of the indigenous Muslim majority even though the Muslim community had historically possessed the overwhelming majority and the power to control all of the communities in Palestine(Ghandour 2010, 146). Finally, in 1948, the British Mandate replaced the native Muslim leadership with that of the immigrant Jews, who obtained the power to establish a state. The native Muslim majority lost this power. This outcome was the result of a typical strategy used by British colonialists to control the Middle East in which leadership by a minority and foreigners was promoted and the native leadership was reduced to maintain instability.
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When the British Mandate expelled Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem in 1937, it secured a population of nearly 400,000 Jews (28% of Palestine’s population), which sufficed for Palestine to be considered Jewish, according to Zionist leader Chaïm Weizmann, who became an Israeli-British citizen and the first president of Israel when Israel was established in 1948. In March 1920, Weizmann stated as follows(Weizmann 1983, 250-263). “By a Jewish National Home I mean the creation of such conditions that as the country is developed we can pour in a considerable number of immigrants, and finally establish such a society in Palestine that Palestine shall be as Jewish as England is English, or America is American. Those were my very words at the Peace Conference, before the tribunal of all the Powers when we were asked what is meant by Jewish National Home … One million pounds approximately, must be made for the next ten years ... We now have in Palestine 10,000 productive people. If we have 50,000 or 100,000 productive people in the country, Palestine will become Jewish. In my opinion, the whole problem boils down to the first 300,000 Jews. When this number will arrive in the country, Palestine becomes Jewish. I believe the Jewish State is a feasibility that can yet in our days be made into a reality.” The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the first promise by the British Empire to provide the Jewish people a national home in Palestine and was implemented during the Mandate without interruption to achieve its final aim, a Jewish state. The British Mandate made a strategic decision to divide Palestine into three religious communities (Muslim, Christian and Jewish) rather than as a national group. The identification of the Muslim majority as “a community” similar to the Christian and Jewish minorities reduced the leadership of the indigenous Muslim majority even though the Muslim community had historically possessed the overwhelming majority and the power to control all of the communities in Palestine(Ghandour 2010, 146). Finally, in 1948, the British Mandate replaced the native Muslim leadership with that of the immigrant Jews, who obtained the power to establish a state. The native Muslim majority lost this power. This outcome was the result of a typical strategy used by British colonialists to control the Middle East in which leadership by a minority and foreigners was promoted and the native leadership was reduced to maintain instability.
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