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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 7 July 1937 the British Royal Commission headed by Lord Peel published its report, recommending the partition of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, and the transfer of more than 200,000 Palestinians from their homes. Palestinians rejected it, and the rebellion flared again.
The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question records that the commission’s final report was published on 7 July 1937, and that it recommended the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab, and the transfer of more than 200,000 Palestinians from their homes. The United Nations study describes the plan as allotting roughly the northern quarter of Palestine and most of the western coastal plain, about a third of the country, to the Jewish state, with Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth, and a corridor to the sea at Jaffa, remaining under a British Mandate.123
Link to this chapterThe Palestinian leadership was outraged at the report and condemned the partition recommendation; the Zionist leadership, divided, agreed to approve the principle of partition but not the specifics of the Peel map. The United Nations study records that partition was unacceptable to the Palestinians and that the rebellion flared up again, lasting until 1939.45
Link to this chapterHeaded the Arab leaders who gave evidence to the Commission
Attributed to United Nations, The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem
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PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Laila Parsons)
Original-language quotation · enThe final report was published on July 7, 1937.Link to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Laila Parsons)
Original-language quotation · enrecommended that more than 200,000 Palestinians be transferred from their homesLink to this citationUnited Nations · section: Chapter VII, The Peel Commission Report
Original-language quotation · enallotted roughly the northern quarter of Palestine and the major part of the western coastal plain to the Jewish state, about a third of the country’s areaLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Laila Parsons)
Original-language quotation · enThe Palestinian leadership were outraged at the report and condemned the partition recommendation.Link to this citationUnited Nations · section: Chapter VII, The Peel Commission Report
Original-language quotation · enPartition was unacceptable to the Palestinians, whose struggle for self-determination had brought the British Government to admit the unworkability of the Mandate. The rebellion flared up again, lasting until 1939.Link to this citationdocument · United Nations
The United Nations study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (ST/SG/SER.F/1), as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Laila Parsons, “The Peel Commission (1936–1937)”, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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