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Index: Sources, C

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Index: Sources, C

  • Perceptions of Palestine — 1999. Kathleen Christison, Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy: the Israel-centered frame of reference in U.S. policymaking on Palestine, from nineteenth-century orientalism through the Clinton afterword, the Notes, the Selected Bibliography and the Index in full (read in full, lines 1-7744).
  • British Policy in Palestine — British White Paper of June 1922 — 1922-06. The Churchill White Paper: the Government’s interpretation of the Balfour Declaration — no wholly Jewish Palestine, a National Home founded in Palestine, immigration limited by economic capacity, Palestine west of the Jordan held excluded from the McMahon pledge, and a Legislative Council as the second step to self-government.
  • The Clinton Parameters (23 December 2000) — 2000-12-23. William J. Clinton, The Clinton Parameters: minutes of the oral proposal read at the White House — 94-96% of the West Bank, 1-3% land swap, 80% of settlers in blocks, a non-militarized Palestine, Jerusalem divided by neighborhood with Palestinian sovereignty over the Haram, and a refugee formula with no specific right of return to Israel itself; no written text was presented. Read in full, PDF p.1-4 of 4.
  • Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey — 1919-08-28. Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey (King-Crane Commission), FRUS 1919 Paris vol. XII, documents 375-381: instructions, appointment of King and Crane, their June-July 1919 telegrams, the Report on Syria (1863 petitions), Mesopotamia and the non-Arabic-speaking portions with all recommendations, and the Confidential Appendix. Read in full, lines 1-8860 of 8860.
  • Report of the Commission appointed by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with the approval of the Council of the League of Nations, to determine the rights and claims of Moslems and Jews in connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem — 1930-12. Report of the International Commission for the Wailing Wall (Löfgren, Barde, van Kempen): appointment, description and history of the Western Wall, the Jewish claims and Moslem contentions, the evidence on devotions and appurtenances, and the unanimous Verdict — sole Moslem ownership of Wall, Pavement and Moghrabi Quarter as Waqf; Jewish free access ab antiquo; the 1929 instructions made permanent, the Ark restricted to fasts and specified holy days, the Shofar prohibited. Lines 1-1764 of 1764 read in full.
  • Report of the Palestine Royal Commission — 1937. Report of the Palestine Royal Commission (Peel Commission, Cmd. 5479), read in full, PDF p.1-423 of 423: Warrants, Preface, the historical background and the War and the Mandate, Palestine 1920-1936, the 1936 disturbances and the present situation, the operation of the Mandate in Chapters VI-XIX (administration to conclusions, the Part II recommendations held only palliatives), and Part III — the force of circumstances, Cantonisation rejected, the Plan of Partition complete with subventions, a common tariff and an exchange of land and population, the Conclusion, Appendices 1-4 (the remaining Mandate Articles, the Higher Arab Officials’ representations in full, and the 1935 per-head and 1931 Census tables) and Maps Nos. 2-9.
  • Palestine Partition Commission Report — 1938-10. Palestine Partition Commission Report (Woodhead Commission, Cmd. 5854), read in part 1 of 7, PDF p.1-53 of 322: Preface and terms of reference, Chapter I synopsis, political background since July 1937, general matters including population and land statistics, Jerusalem and Nazareth enclave boundaries, Jaffa and Jaffa–Tel Aviv boundary, Plan A boundaries and population and land figures, and the opening of the chapter on exchanges and transfer of population.
  • Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto — 1921-10. Commission of Inquiry (Haycraft, Chairman), Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921 (Cmd. 1540): terms of reference, interim report on the Khedera raid, the Jaffa Riots report with its conclusions (fundamental cause in Arab discontent connected with immigration and Zionist policy as expounded; no premeditation; no inherent anti-Semitism), Appendix B medical statistics (95 killed), and the Samuel and Churchill despatches. Read in full, PDF p.1-70 of 70.
  • Report of a Committee set up to consider certain correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca — 1939. Report of a Committee set up to consider certain correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca (Cmd. 5974): the joint Arab–United Kingdom committee, unable to agree whether Palestine was included in the McMahon pledge, with the Arab and United Kingdom memoranda in annex; the United Kingdom side concedes the exclusion language was not so specific and unmistakable as thought. Lines 1-871 of 871 read in full.
  • Report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee — 2001-04-30. Report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee (the Mitchell Report): no persuasive evidence of a deliberate PA plan to initiate violence or a deliberate GOI plan to respond with lethal force, and recommendations for an unconditional cessation of violence, a settlement freeze, non-lethal IDF responses, lifted closures and resumed negotiations.

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