On The Iron Wall Dbq

From the times of World War I to the years of the Great Depression there was an increasingly high amount of political and religious tensions in Palestine, as well as the heightening of political violence. A lot of changes have taken place over the years, in a variety of different ways. There were a lot of new declarations and the wartime promises, one of these declarations being the Balfour declaration. The British Empire failed Palestine. It ruled Palestine for many years, and within the thirty years or so the political landscape was completely transformed. Tom Segev’s One Palestine Complete and Ze’v Jabotinsky’s “On the Iron Wall” investigate the arguments that are being made about the conflict and the history.

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As we know, this conflict brought about many religious riots such as the Jaffa riots in 1921 and the 1929 Palestine riots, all which led to the 1936-39 Arab Revolt in Palestine, also known as the Great Revolt.”The riots struck at the professional honor of the men responsible for law and order in the country and also violated their sense of fairness” (Segev, 325). The Arab Revolt was the uprising by the Palestinian Arabs in mandatory Palestine against the British administration of the Palestine mandate. The revolt demanded Arab independence. The revolt caused displacement of many Arabs as tensions and violence progressively rose. The revolt resulted in the White Paper of 1939, which was the response of the revolt in Palestine by the British. The paper rejected the Peel Commission Report, which was created to investigate the causes of conflict between the Arabs and Jews in Palestine. Zionists disagreed with the White Paper and led a number of attacks on government property which lasted many months. “What can a lone British officer do in a city like Hebron?” wrote David Ben-Gurion.“The British could do very little” (Segev,