In the mid 1930s the Polish government contemplated the mass deportation of its large Jewish population to the British Mandate of PalestineBritish Mandate of Palestine Full Description:The system of colonial administration authorized by the League of Nations, granting Britain governance over the territory of Palestine following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. It was during this period that the infrastructure for the future conflict was laid. The British Mandate was a “trusteeship” that governed the region for three decades. The British administration was tasked with a “dual obligation”: to facilitate the establishment of a “Jewish national home” (as promised in the Balfour Declaration) while ostensibly protecting the civil rights of the “non-Jewish communities” (the Arab majority). Critical Perspective:The Mandate represents the failure of imperial management. Britain made contradictory promises to both Arabs and Jews to secure wartime support, creating a situation where two distinct national movements were competing for the same territory under the umbrella of a single colonial state. When the violence became unmanageable and the empire’s resources waned, Britain withdrew, leaving a vacuum that led immediately to war. Further Reading The End of the British Mandate: Imperial Withdrawal and the Onset of War The UN Partition Plan of 1947: A Spark in a TinderboxThe 1948 War: Nakba and Independence Plan Dalet: A Blueprint for Conflict The Palestinian Nakba: A National Trauma Arab States’ Intervention and the Widening War The Palestinian Refugee Crisis The 1949 Armistice Agreements: A Frozen Conflict Israel’s Transformation: State-Building and Immigration The Arab World After 1948: Political Upheaval The Legacy of 1948: The Politics of Memory . This anti semitic policy gained support from an unlikely ally, the right wing zionist Jews that made up the revisionist movement in Poland.

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