Palestine to Israel From Mandate to Independence

This collection of articles analyzes the underlying motivation, strategy and interests which lay behind "Great Power" (British and post-World War II American) involvement in Palestine and the Middle East, from 1917 to 1948.

Chapter 1 Churchill and the Balfour Declaration: The Interpretation, 1920–1922; Chapter 2 Churchill and Palestine: At the Exchequer, 1928; Chapter 3 Direction of Policy in Palestine, 1936–1945; Chapter 4 Origins of the Arab States’ Involvement in Palestine; Chapter 5 British Strategy and the Palestine Question 1936–1939; Chapter 6 Appeasement in the Middle East: The British White Paper on Palestine, May 1939; Chapter 7 A Note on the Mansion House Speech, May 1941; Chapter 8 American Influence on British Policy in the Middle East during World War Two: First Attempts at Coordinating Allied Policy on Palestine; Chapter 9 The Moyne Assassination, November 1944: A Political Analysis; Chapter 10 The Genesis of the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine, November 1945: A Case Study in the Assertion of American Hegemony; Chapter 11 Truman and Palestine, 1945–1948: Revisionism, Politics and Diplomacy; Chapter 12 Why Britain Left: the End of the Mandate;

Michael J. Cohen Professor of History, Bar Ilan University