M E STU 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jewish Question, White Paper Of 1939, Arab Culture

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Middle Eastern Studies
• Course: M E STU 10
• Professor: Mahmood Monshipouri

Document Summary

M e stu 10 lecture 6 muslims and jews in palestine. Both struggling to maintain identity with the other . Druze, bahai, and samaritans are sometimes considered abrahamic religions as well as. At the end of wwi, jews were mostly socialists and eager to contribute to a zionist society. Introducing communism into palestine was the antithesis of arab culture. British white paper declared that britain didn"t think that palestine as a whole should be converted into a jewish national home but such a home should be founded in palestine. British were ambiguous because they were hesitant. Many arabs were absentee landowners in palestine. Arabs sold land to zionists for economics reasons. Jews bought land without tenant, kicking out arabs. Peel condition: palestine should be divided into three zones: arab, jewish, and neutral. 1939 white paper put on more restrictions on jews because. Fear of italian control of red sea. Leon pinsker: national identity rather than religion.