Sir John-Hope-Simpson — Deemed the main reason for the Palestinian riots (1929) was because there was insufficient land in Palestine to absorb the flow of immigration + criticised the Jewish hiring policy -> responsible for deplorable conditions of the Arab farmers Recommended immigration and land purchase control on the Jews

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

Passfield white paper

Arab Executive in Palestine

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

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all.

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

Astrology, like any psychology, is able to predict the probabilities in a given situation because it relates experience to other experience. Experience itself is constant change, and any predictive judgment must obviously have a continual reorientation.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

Not everyone can be a truffle. Most of us are potatoes. And a potato is a very good thing to be.

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.

High titles debase, instead of elevate, those who know not how to support them.

I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.

You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it?

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

Capital available for individuals to start and expand businesses would increase with regulatory and strategic tax reforms, like reducing marginal rates, repealing the alternative minimum tax, and making the U.S. the most welcoming place for employers to relocate and create jobs.

I'd like to think I'm a good guy as I've gotten older.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.