Pre-State Israel (Palestine/Eretz Israel)

Reference

• “All of Palestine is Holy Muslim Waqf Land”: A Myth and its Roots
• The Cairo Conference
• Dunam
• Historical Sites in Central Palestine (1918)
• “The Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain, Excerpts
• Jewish Claim to the Land of Israel
• Origins of the Name “Palestine”
• Origins of Palestinian Arabs
• Pre-State Israel Polls
• The Tobiansky Affair
• Turks Surrender Jerusalem to the British
  • Footage of General Allenby Entering Jerusalem. December 11, 1917.

International Relations

• League of Nations
• Partition Plan
• Truman Administration
• The Vatican

Arab-Jewish Relations

• The Arab Revolt (1936-1939)
  • The Forgotten Tiberias Pogrom of 1938
  • Photographs
• Arab Riots of the 1920s
  • Photographs
• The Arabic Name of the Jewish State
• Arabs in Palestine
• Assassination of of Count Bernadotte
• Assassination of Hayim Arlosoroff
• Berit Shalom
• Hadassah Convoy Massacre (1948)
• Hebron Massacre (1929)
• The Palestine Arab Congress
• Pre-State Peace Efforts
• War of Israeli Independence (1948)

Ottoman & British Rule

• Atlit Prison Break (1945)
• The British Mandate (1922-1947)
• During World War I (1914-1918)
• Jewish Immigration to Palestine
• The Mahane Yehuda Police Station
• Nebi Samwil Photos (1917)
• The Safed City Police Station
• Special Session of GA on Palestine (1947)
• Under Ottoman Rule (1517-1917)
  • Ottoman Rule [Map]
• U.S., Polish and Swedish Consulates Bombed Over Partition
• When Churchill Severed Transjordan From Palestine

Primary Source Documents

• Eleanor Roosevelt: My Round-the-World Adventures (March 1, 1958)
• CIA Report on Possible Developments in Palestine Following Partition Vote (February 28, 1948)
• Statement by UK Foreign Secretary Bevin
• U.S. Proposes Temporary Trusteeship
• CIA Report on the Consequences of Partition (November 28, 1947)
• CIA Report on Palestine Before Partition (October 20, 1947)
• CIA Report on Situation in the Mediterranean and the Near East (October 17, 1947)
• Martin Buber's Open Letter to Gandhi
• Robert Kennedy's Reports from Palestine
• Roosevelt-King Saud Correspondence
• OSS on Arab Opposition of U.S. Support of Zionists (April 16, 1943)
• Speech: The Jewish Homeland and the Palestine Mandate (July 6, 1939)
• Convention Between the U.S. and Great Britain Regarding Palestine
• Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence
• The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
• The Weizmann-Faisal Agreement
• Zionist Organization Statement on Palestine

Important Figures

• Ruth Aliav (Kluger)
• Arthur Balfour
• David Ben-Gurion
• Menachem Begin
• Winston Churchill 
• Theodor Herzl
• Haj Amin al-Husseini
• Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky
• Walter Rothschild
• Herbert Samuel
• High Commissioners for Palestine

Committees & Conferences

• The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
• The Balfour Declaration (1917)
• King-Crane Commission (1919)
• San Remo Conference (1920)
  • Jewish National Home Determined by San Remo Conference [map]
  • Minutes of Palestine Meeting of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers
• The Shaw Commission (1930)
  • The Hope-Simpson Report (1930)
• The Peel Commission (1937)
• The St. James Conference (1939)
• The Biltmore Conference (1942)
• The Anglo-American Committee (1946)

Building a Jewish Army

• The Altalena Affair
• Evolution of Jewish Defense in Palestine
• Jewish Brigade Group
• Jewish Defense Organizations
  • Ha-Shomer
  • LoHamei Herut Israel
  • The Jewish Legion
• Olei Ha-Gardom
• Palestinian Jewish Parachutists
• Hebrew-Language Clandestine Radio
• The Zion Mule Corps of Gallipoli

Zionism

• Table of Contents
• Ahdut Ha-Avodah
• Bilu
• Bustenai
• Congress of Berlin
• The Histadrut
• Jewish Colonial Trust
• Jewish Settlements
• Keren Hayesod
• The Labor Battalion
• Palestine Office
• Solel Boneh
• Stockade and Watchtower
• Va'ad Leumi