Offers an analytical account of the origins of the Arab-Zionist conflict and its development from early in the twentieth century until 1948, focusing on the period when Britain ruled Palestine under mandate from the League of Nations.

List of Maps  List of Documents  Preface  CHAPTER ONE Arab Nationalism and British Promises of Independence During World War I Intellectual and Political Developments Before 1914  Husayn and the Arab National Movement  The Husayn-McMahon Correspondence, July 1915--January 1916  The British Promise, 24 October 1915  A Summary Evaluation of the Correspondence  CHAPTER TWO Zionism and the Balfour Declaration  Emancipation and Anti-Semitism  Political Zionism  The Balfour Declaration  The Drafting and Significance of the Declaration  The Balfour Declaration Assessed, and Compared with the Husayn-McMahon Correspondence  CHAPTER THREE Mandatory Problems, 1920-1945 Britain's Middle Eastern Empire  Britain's Quest for Legitimacy  The Palestinian Arabs: Political and Socioeconomic Upheaval  The Zionists' Progress  Crossroads in the 1930s  The Arab Rebellion  The 1939 White Paper and World War II  CHAPTER FOUR From Mandate to Independence, 1945-1948 The Power Vacuum in 1945  The Search for an Anglo-American Consensus  Zionist Rebellion  Arab Disarray  The British Decision to Surrender the Mandate  The UN Partition Resolution, November 1947  The Establishment of the State of Israel  Documents  Glossary Suggested Reading  Index