The Peel Commission Report of 1937 and the Origins of the Partition Concept
The Peel proposal doesn't sound so reasonable. It gives the zionists about 2/3 of the coastline, the Keneret, and the fertile northern vallies plus Jaffa and Haifa. Only 10 years earlier there were just 80.000 Jews in Palestine. By '37 it was up to 400,000 so something would have to be done but this wasn't it. Plus, the zionist leaders made clear this would be the place from which they'd take everything. It's understandable that the Arabs rejected it.
The Peel proposal doesn't sound so reasonable. It gives the zionists about 2/3 of the coastline, the Keneret, and the fertile northern vallies plus Jaffa and Haifa. Only 10 years earlier there were just 80.000 Jews in Palestine. By '37 it was up to 400,000 so something would have to be done but this wasn't it. Plus, the zionist leaders made clear this would be the place from which they'd take everything. It's understandable that the Arabs rejected it.
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