Passfield white paper — 1930, following Sir JHS recommendations Proposed setting land aside for the landless Arabs and restriction on Jewish immigration

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Balfour Declaration

San Remo Conference

Treaty of Sèvres

Mandate System

Turkish War of Independence

Treaty of Lausanne

Syria & Lebanon 4 dates

Iraq 6 dates

Zionism

Balfour Declaration impact in Palestine

Haganah

Palestinian riots at the Wailling Wall and Hebron

Great Arab Revolt

Widening gap between the Jewish and Arab communities in the 30s

Impact of the Great Arab Revolt on the Jewish settlers

Impact of the Great Arab Revolt on the British

Arab Executive in Palestine

Sir John-Hope-Simpson

Peel Royal Commission

British White Paper

British White Paper : “His Majesty’s Government therefore now declare unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State”

Reactions to the White Paper 1939

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

It appears I am destined for something; I will live.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

Life is about now - some things are just too important to miss.

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

Maybe Fate isnt the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.