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Article: BRITAIN AND PALESTINE.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-1948. Naomi Shepherd. John Murray. [pounds]20.00. 290 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5707-0.
Nothing in Britain's colonial experience, as the author of this book rightly observes, prepared her for the challenge presented by Palestine, the former Ottoman province mandated or entrusted to her by the League of Nations at the end of the First World War. In principle, British rule should have lasted until the Palestinians, Arab and Jew, were judged fit to govern themselves. It ended instead in chaos and civil war when the British administration, war weary and frustrated beyond endurance, abandoned the Mandate and dumped the problem in ...