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Diaries Reveal British Officials in Palestine Wanted to Go Home


(Times of Israel) Steven E. Zipperstein - Sir John Chancellor led British Mandatory Palestine from December 1928 through September 1931, a period that included the Hebron massacre on August 24, 1929. Chancellor's top deputy was chief secretary Sir Harry Charles Luke. Both kept meticulous diaries, recording their observations and commentary on the conflict between Palestinian Arab nationalism and Zionism. The writer is a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and a visiting professor of law at Tel Aviv University.
2020-06-19 00:00:00
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