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Article: In Palestine, Integration, Development, Participation.(school system and education)
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- UN Chronicle
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- December 22, 1999
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As the twentieth century, with its major transformations determining events, approaches its finale, the fate of Palestine and its people will stand out as one of its more notable issues, and one with which the United Nations has been intimately associated.
Subsequent to its military occupation in December 1917 by the British army, the League of Nations charged Britain with a mandate to govern Palestine and prepare its population for self-government. Simultaneously, the mandate was also to "facilitate the establishment of the Jewish National Home" in Palestine. We don't need to concern ourselves with the political history of Palestine; we are more concerned with ...