Palestine

• McMahon Hussein Letters (July 1915 - March 1916)


  Correspondence between McMahon and Hussein regarding Arab independence
• Sykes-Picot Agreement (May 1916)


  Agreement between Britain and France to divide the Middle East
• Balfour Declaration (1917)


  British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine
• San Remo Allied Powers conference (1920)


  Conference granting Palestine to Britain as a mandate
• Jerusalem riots (1921)


  Riots against the Balfour Declaration asserting Palestinian Arab identity
• Mohammed Amin al-Husseini


  Appointed as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the Muslim community
• Legislative Council proposal (1922)


  British proposal rejected by Palestinian Arab delegation
• 1929 Arab riots


  Riots in Jerusalem and Hebron resulting in the death of about 200 Jews
• British White Paper (1930)


  Recommendation to limit Jewish immigration into Palestine
• The Black Hand (1930-35)


  Islamist group launching violence against Jewish community and British rule
• 1935 Legislative Assembly proposal


  Accepted by Palestinian Arab leadership but rejected by British House of Commons
• 1936-39 Arab revolt


  Revolt against British rule with more than 5,000 Arabs killed
• Peel Commission plan (7th July 1937)


  Partition plan for Palestine published
• 1939 White Paper


  British government limits Jewish immigration into Palestine
• United Nations partition recommendation (1947)


  Recommendation to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states
• Exodus (1947)


  Ship turned away from Palestine
• 1947 UN partition vote


  UN votes for partition, leading to civil war between Jews and Palestinians
• Massacre at Deir Yassin

  Massacre during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war