Should the British Government be blamed for its handling of the Mandate in Palestine?

No, the British Government should not be blamed

Source list

It was protecting Britain's interests

• Map of British and French empires in 1920

• The British Empire in 1921

• Economic and transport map

• Map of the Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916

Created the Jewish National Home

• Map of Jewish emigration from Germany 1933-1939 - The Anne Frank Museum

• Palestinian Citizenship Certificates

• Extract from the Shaw Commission 1930

• Palestine Immigrant Certificate - Jewish Agency for Palestine

• Jewish immigration to Palestine 1919 to 1941

• Jewish refugee cartoon - 1938

• Kopel Gurwin poster - 1964

• Mandate articles

• Map of Tel Aviv

• Martha's Story

• Martha and Margot

• Martha on the beach

• How asylum policies deterred Jewish migration out of Nazi Germany: A quantitative assessment

Commitment cost money and lives

• Letter to Arthur Creech Jones, Colonial Secretary, from the mother of a British soldier, concerning British deaths from Palestine, 1 December 1946

• Barrel bomb - photograph

• Records from the King's Own Royal Regiment held at the Regiment Museum, Lancaster

• A Royal Scots truck destroyed by a land mine planted on the road by Arab rebels at Tulkarem

• Military Burial, Palestine 1946 - National Army Museum

• The Palestine Police - Extract

• Sydney Moody

• William Thomas Nunn - Photograph

Neither side compromised

• The Churchill White Paper of 1922

• The 1939 White Paper

• Extracts from the Reply of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine to the White Paper issued by the British Government on May 17 1939

• Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, April 1946

• The Biltmore Programme 1942

• Map of the Levant with hand drawn lines marking territorial claims of the Zionist Organisation, 1919

• Letter from Major-General Thwaites reporting a conversation he had with Chaim Weizmann, in which Weizmann expressed his aims in Palestine. February 15, 1919.

• A stamp issued by Arab rebels in September 1938, showing the Christian and Muslim symbols of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Haram al-Sharif. 

• Extracts from the Shaw Commission Report, 1930

• Struma leaflet

No outside help for Britain

• Cartoon by Illingworth,  from 'Punch', March 31, 1948 on the British government announcement of its decision to withdraw from Palestine on May 15, 1948

• Statement on Palestine to the House of Commons by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, February 1947

• Extract from Palestine Mission. A Personal Record 1947 written by British Labour MP Richard Crossman, a member of the Anglo-American committee on Palestine, 1946

• British soldiers transfer Jewish refugees from the 'Exodus 1947' to the deportation ships

• Extracts from 'Palestine Postscript. A short record of the last days of the Mandate,' by Sir Henry Gurney

• Full page advertisment from the New York Herald-Tribune and New York Post, May 15 1947, written in the form of an open letter to the Palestinian terrorists by the American playwright Ben Hecht

• Extracts from the Report of the United Nations Palestine Commission to the Second Special Session of the General Assembly, 10 April 1948