PALESTINE (British Mandate) In the Promised Land Balfour. On Nov. 2, 1917, Mr. Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, issued a declaration on behalf of his Government: "His Majesty's ...

In the case of Palestine, this criterion for declaring it today a ‘colony’, between the river and the sea, is perfectly fulfilled.

British High Commissioner Arthur Wauchope, the governor-general of Mandate Palestine and the highest British authority there, delivered one of the opening speeches, expressing his belief in the ...

Pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action's co-founder on Friday lost a bid to pause the British government's decision ...

The British Government today rejected the proposal that it surrender its twenty-year-old mandate over Palestine to the United States, in an acrimonious debate in the House of Lords raised by Lord ...

History As It Happens: The British mandate The British army dynamites stone houses in an Arab town in northern Mandatory Palestine in reprisal for rebel activities, Jan. 9, 1939.

Britain’s official post-WWI administration of Palestine lasted from 1920-48 and is probably the UK colonial enterprise least addressed by its fiction filmmakers. But now prolific writer-director ...

Britain’s official post-WWI administration of Palestine lasted from 1920-48 and is probably the UK colonial enterprise least addressed by its fiction filmmakers. But now prolific writer-director ...