Palestine Royal Commission. Summary of Report of the Palestine Royal Commission

(ZIONISM)

n.p.

(London)

1937

Text in English. With folding map of the region showing the proposed partition of Palestine into a Jewish State, Arab State and British Enclave

Official Communique No. 9/37

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