British India – British Palestine Mandate relations

Main articles: Dominion of Pakistan – Occupied Palestine relations and Dominion of India – Occupied Palestine relations

Mandate of Palestine—British India relations

Mandatory Palestine	British India

Map of Mandatory Palestine in 1946, showing towns, Jewish settlements, and depopulated villages.

Great Britain conquered Palestine from the Ottoman Empire during 1917-18. Following the Great War, British rule in Occupied Palestine was administered under a League of Nations 'Mandate' until 1948. Unlike other colonies, this Mandate aimed to lead the native population to self-government and independence. The negative publicity caused by the deteriorating situation in Palestine and the violence erupting on both sides made the mandate increasingly unpopular in Great Britain and was instrumental in the government's announcement of its intention to terminate the mandate and return the Palestine question to the United Nations. The links with the Republic of Ireland remain strong 136 years after the club's formation, and Ireland as a country that has what some might call a natural affinity with Palestinians (there is also strong support for the Palestinian people among republicans in Northern Ireland). It was fundamental folly to annex Palestine out of persistent anxieties over imperial, notably Indian, security, while at the same pursuing therein a policy of Zionist settlement that, through resulting ethnic conflict, served to render the territory almost useless as an imperial asset. Its strategic value was uncertain in any event given the wide geographical separation of Palestine and British India and the weakening of British control in the Indian subcontinent in the face of intensifying political and economic nationalism.

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Passports from the British Mandate era

Flag of the of the High Commissioner of Palestine as official design.

A 1939 one Palestine pound note

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