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Exact day24 July 1922
Palestine
On 24 July 1922 the Council of the League of Nations approved the Mandate for Palestine, which wrote the Balfour Declaration into British rule. It made Britain responsible for securing the establishment of a Jewish national home, and named the country’s Arab majority only as its “non-Jewish communities”.
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The text of the Mandate for Palestine, approved by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922, had a preamble and twenty-eight articles. The preamble repeated Britain’s commitment in the terms of the Balfour Declaration. It referred to Palestine’s Christian and Muslim Arabs, almost 90 percent of its population by the British census of 1922, as “the non-Jewish communities in Palestine”, and made no mention of their political or national rights. The Mandate formally came into force on 29 September 1923.
Link to this chapterPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Alex Winder)
Editorial paraphrase · enApproved by the League Council on 24 July 1922, with a preamble and twenty-eight articles; the Arab majority (almost 90 percent by the 1922 census) named “non-Jewish communities”; in force on 29 September 1923.
Link to this citationArticle 2 made Britain responsible for placing the country under conditions that would secure the establishment of the Jewish national home. Article 4 recognised the Zionist Organization as the body to advise and co-operate with Britain on it; no such body was recognised for the majority. Article 6 committed Britain to facilitate Jewish immigration and close settlement by Jews on the land, and Article 22 gave Hebrew equal status with Arabic. The encyclopedia reads the Mandate as putting in place structures that let the Zionist movement gain the upper hand over the country’s people, leading in 1948 to their displacement rather than their independence.
Link to this chapterPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Alex Winder)
Editorial paraphrase · enArticles 2, 4, 6, 7 and 22 on the Jewish national home, the Zionist Organization, immigration and settlement, and Hebrew; structures that led in 1948 to displacement rather than independence.
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article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
The same overview by Alex Winder, which sets out the Mandate’s text.
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document · United Nations
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