1st Edition

Palestine to Israel From Mandate to Independence

By Michael J. Cohen Copyright 1988
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection of articles analyzes the underlying motivation, strategy and interests which lay behind "Great Power" (British and post-World War II American) involvement in Palestine and the Middle East, from 1917 to 1948.

    Chapter 1 Churchill and the Balfour Declaration: The Interpretation, 1920–1922; Chapter 2 Churchill and Palestine: At the Exchequer, 1928; Chapter 3 Direction of Policy in Palestine, 1936–1945; Chapter 4 Origins of the Arab States’ Involvement in Palestine; Chapter 5 British Strategy and the Palestine Question 1936–1939; Chapter 6 Appeasement in the Middle East: The British White Paper on Palestine, May 1939; Chapter 7 A Note on the Mansion House Speech, May 1941; Chapter 8 American Influence on British Policy in the Middle East during World War Two: First Attempts at Coordinating Allied Policy on Palestine; Chapter 9 The Moyne Assassination, November 1944: A Political Analysis; Chapter 10 The Genesis of the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine, November 1945: A Case Study in the Assertion of American Hegemony; Chapter 11 Truman and Palestine, 1945–1948: Revisionism, Politics and Diplomacy; Chapter 12 Why Britain Left: the End of the Mandate;

    Biography

    Michael J. Cohen Professor of History, Bar Ilan University