P F Tinmore,
et al,
Again, the Arab Palestinians generally interpret most issues about the migration of Jews to the territory in which the Mandate applied.
Indeed, the Palestinians would not cooperate with any of the colonial project.
(OBSERVATION)
The "Black Letter:" Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald --- to --- Dr. Weizmann on the 13th February, 1931
The Mandatory Government and the Jewish Agency had a conference in November 1930, to discuss the revival of Arab antagonism and the emergence of the Palestinian Black Hand of
Syrian-born
Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam --- and the Arab jihadist attacks on Jewish settlers. In part, The Prime Minister said, “will fall to be read as the authoritative interpretation of the White Paper” (pertaining to matter it discussed). Among the issues were:
“The obligation to facilitate Jewish immigration and to encourage close settlement by Jews on the land remains a positive obligation of the Mandate, and it can be fulfilled without prejudice to the rights and position of other sections of the population of Palestine.”
“The statement of policy of His Majesty’s Government did not imply a prohibition of acquisition of additional land by Jews.”
“His Majesty’s Government did not prescribe and do not contemplate any stoppage or prohibition of Jewish immigration in any of its categories.”
(COMMENT)
This statement of policy and the interpretation
(of the previous 1930 White Paper) seemed to be more acceptable to the Jewish Agency than it did to the various disorganized Arab observers; many of whom considered the letter to be a modification to the policy expressed in the White Paper. The Arabs declined to participate with the High Commissioner in the decision making processes; and retarding the to development self-governing institutions. Gradually --- over time, the Arab became a little more organized and began to collectively voice informally their interpretation of the Jewish Immigration in negative terms; describing it as colonialism, foreign invasion, and a threat to Arab civil rights.
The Arab Palestinians, five years later, pulled together five Arab political parties and presented the High commissioner memorandum demanding immediate cessation of Jewish immigration.
As usual, the Arab Palestinians failed to understand one of the principle objectives was the immigration of Jews for the establishment of a Jewish National Home.
The Arab Palestinian, unable to get their demands met, ramped-up the propaganda effort to suggest that they are the virtual victims of an international conspiracy to steal the land formerly under the sovereign control of the Ottoman Empire. And today, this allegation that they are subject to a policy of colonialism is merely an extension of the 1930s argument using contemporary terminology.
Most Respectfully,
R