How did the Palestinian people resist the British colonists after World War I?

After World War I, the imperialist powers carved up the Ottoman colony. 1920 In April, the San Remo meeting of the Supreme Council of the Allies decided to make the Palestinian area a British mandated territory. Britain sent the High Commissioner to rule directly, and Palestine became a British colony. The British Government and the High Commissioner hold all the legislative and executive powers of Palestine.

In order to suppress the resistance of the Arab people, the British colonial authorities established a huge violent machine and imposed cruel military rule on Palestine. At the same time, in order to turn the Zionist movement into a tool for its aggression and plunder of the Middle East, Britain supports encouraging Jews to immigrate to Palestine. By 193 1 year, the number of Jews in Palestine had reached17,40000. In order to defend national independence and sovereignty, the Palestinian people bravely fought against Britain and Zionism.

From April to1April 16, 65438, Jews and Arabs killed each other in Palestine, which led to a large-scale bloody conflict and then developed into an anti-British uprising of the Palestinian people. On April 25th, an Arab High Commission chaired by all political parties was established in Jerusalem, and asked the British High Commissioner in Pakistan to ban all Jews from buying Arab land and establish a national government based on representative system. The British colonial authorities not only rejected these demands, but also announced on May 18 that they agreed to the application of "Jewish agency" and allowed 4,500 Jews to move to Palestine in the next six months. This further aroused the anger of Arabs, who started armed struggle one after another.

1On July 8, 937, Britain put forward a partition plan of "dividing Palestine into three parts", that is, the Mediterranean coast is a Jewish state, accounting for about one-third of the whole territory; Jerusalem and the corridor to the Mediterranean are still under British trusteeship; The rest of Palestine is merged with other regions. The Palestinian people strongly condemn and categorically reject this plan to dismember Palestine and set off a larger-scale armed struggle.

1in the summer of 938, the anti-British armed struggle reached its climax. Guerrillas controlled most of Palestine, established base areas in mountainous areas and established their own political power in vast rural areas. People in Arab countries held rallies and demonstrations to support the just struggle of the Palestinian people. On the one hand, Britain announced the postponement of the partition plan, on the other hand, it sent troops to suppress it. By the end of 1938, there were more than 30,000 British troops stationed in Pakistan. 1939, some guerrillas moved to the Syrian border and were forced to surrender to the French army. Another guerrilla retreated to Vaiju and was wiped out by the Arab army. By July, the uprising of the Palestinian people had failed.

On the other hand, Britain published a white paper on Palestine in May 1939, giving up the partition plan. The white paper claims that an independent Palestinian state with treaty relations with Britain will be established within 10 years; Within five years after the announcement, only 70,000 to 50,000 Jews will be allowed to immigrate to this country. This plan was rejected by Zionists and Arabs, and the contents of the white paper were not realized.