Peel Royal Commission — 1937 Admitted the contradictory obligations contained in the BD were impossible to fulfill. Proposition of dividing Palestine into 2 states -> rejected because neither sides would agree (too late to propose this wise idea) Situation continued to deteriorate -> more violence until suppression of Revolt in 1939

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