Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Mitchell, Nicholas Ensley
Author's Email Address	nmitch3@lsu.edu
URN	etd-07102007-164658
Title	Towards Nakba: The Failure of the British Mandate of Palestine,1922-1939
Degree	Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department	History
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Meredith Veldman Committee Chair David F. Lindenfeld Committee Member M. Reza Pirbhai Committee Member
Keywords	British Mandatory Administrations Jewish nationalism
Date of Defense	2007-07-03
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract In 1922, with the issuance of the Churchill White Paper, the British government committed itself to assuming the responsibilities of the Balfour Declaration and create a bi-national state in the Mandated territory of Palestine. By 1939, the British, represented by the Mandatory Authority, found themselves trapped between a Palestinian-based Zionist movement, itself torn between two competing factions, and a Palestinian Arab nationalist movement whose leadership had collapsed. The internal split between Revisionist Zionism under Ze’ev Jabotinsky and Mainstream Zionism under Chaim Weizmann and, later, David Ben-Gurion prevented the British government from negotiating with a cohesive Zionist organization. The collapse of the highly centralized Palestinian Arab nationalist resistance, led by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini, in 1937 deprived the British government of a cohesive Arab movement with which they could negotiate. This thesis argues that the factional differences within the broader Arab-Zionist conflict caused the British to fail in accomplishing their goal of a bi-national state in Palestine.
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