Palestine Royal Commission Report. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty July 1937. [“The Peel Report.”]

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

London

1937

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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