Category Archives: Documents on the Palestine Question

Interview with Ramadan Shallah, Secretary General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (2009)

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 16. April 2018 by

Ramadan Shallah : I will never, under any conditions, accept the existence of the state of Israel. I have no problem living with the Jewish people. We have lived together in peace for centuries. And if Netanyahu were to ask if we can live together in one state, I would say to him: “If we have exactly the same rights as Jews to come to all of Palestine. If Khaled Meshaal and Ramadan Shallah can come whenever they want, and visit Haifa, and buy a home in Herzliyah if they want, then we can have a new language, and dialogue is possible.”

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Meeting of Justice Brandeis and Mr. Frankfurter with Balfour in Paris, 1919

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 7. February 2014 by

Mr. Balfour expressed great satisfaction that Justice Brandeis came to Europe. He said the Jewish problem (of which the Palestinian question is only a fragment but an essential part) is to his mind as perplexing a question as any that confronts the statesmanship of Europe…[T]he problem was, of course, complicated by the extraordinary phenomenon that Jews now are not only participating in revolutionary movements but are actually, to a large degree, leaders in such movements.

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British [Churchill] White Paper of June 1922

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 13. February 2007 by
The tension which has prevailed from time to time in Palestine is mainly due to apprehensions, which are entertained both by sections of the Arab and by sections of the Jewish population. These apprehensions, so far as the Arabs are concerned are partly based upon exaggerated interpretations of the meaning of the [Balfour] Declaration favouring the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine, made on behalf of His Majesty's Government on 2nd November, 1917…Phrases have been used such as that Palestine is to become "as Jewish as England is English." His Majesty's Government regard any such expectation as impracticable and have no such aim in view. Nor have they at any time contemplated, as appears to be feared by the Arab delegation, the disappearance or the subordination of the Arabic population, language, or culture in Palestine… It is also necessary to point out that the Zionist Commission in Palestine, now termed the Palestine Zionist Executive, has not desired to possess, and does not possess, any share in the general administration of the country.
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Analysis of the Balfour Declaration

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 22. April 2006 by

Analysis of the Balfour Declaration * J.M.N. JEFFRIES** * From J[oseph] M[ary] N[age1] Jeffries, Palestine: The Reality (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939), chap. xi. Reprinted by permission of Longmans, Green & Co. Limited. Equally published in From Haven to … Read more . . .

Chaim Weizmann on the “abnormality” of Jewish existence

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 2. August 2005 by

http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/364a6ac0dc52ada785256e8b00716662″OpenDocument U.N. General Assembly Doc. A/364/Add.2,  A/PV.21,  8 July 1947 UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PALESTINE  VERBATIM RECORD OF THE TWENTY-FIRST MEETING (PUBLIC)Held at the Y.M.C.A. Building, Jerusalem,, Tuesday, 8 July 1947, at 9 a.m.  Dr. Weizmann, public hearing of … Read more . . .

The Hogarth Message

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 2. August 2005 by

http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/4c4f7515dc39195185256cf7006f878c”OpenDocument THE HOGARTH MESSAGE.   The following are the terms of the message which [British] Commander Hogarth was instructed to deliver to King Husain when he visited Jedda in January, 1918: "(1) The Entente Powers are determined that the Arab … Read more . . .

UNGA Resolution 194 (1948)

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 1. March 2005 by

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) 11 December 1948 The General Assembly, Having considered further the situation in Palestine, 1. Expresses its deep appreciation of the progress achieved through the good offices of the late United Nations Mediator in … Read more . . .