Hava’adah Hamalchuthith LePalastina. [Palestine Royal Commission. Summary of Report of the Palestine Royal Commission]

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Lot 152
(ISRAEL, STATE OF).

Hava’adah Hamalchuthith LePalastina. [Palestine Royal Commission. Summary of Report of the Palestine Royal Commission]

Text in Hebrew. With folding map of the region showing the proposed partition of Palestine into a Jewish State, Arab State and British Enclave. pp. 29. Short clean tear on two leaves not affecting text, some staining. Unbound. 8vo. Official Communique No. 9/37.

(Tel Aviv /London ?): n.p. (1937)

Est: $400 - $600
The Royal Commission on Palestine under the chairmanship of Earl Peel was appointed by the British Government on August 7th, 1936, to study the underlying causes of the Arab riots. In July 1937 the Commission presented its report recommending the partitioning of Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a British mandatory enclave. The partition proposal of the Peel Commission was a revolutionary solution to the Palestine problem and a concept that dominated attempts for peace in the region culminating with the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947, the Arab rejection of which sparked the War of Independence in 1948. This official summary was separately published in each of the three official languages of British Mandatory Palestine: English, Hebrew and Arabic.