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Peel Comission
The Peel Commission was created in 1936 to investigate the causes of unrest in Mandatory Palestine. Their overall goal was to examine the Arab- Jewish conflict and propose solutions. The Commission published its report in July 1937 which stated that Jewish and Arab objectives were incompatible, and then proposed that Palestine should be partitioned into three zones: an Arab state, a Jewish state, and a neutral territory containing the holy places. -
Support for Jewish State
After WWI, the Jewish population in Palestine increased dramatically, as well as Jewish-Arab violence. This violence and failure to reach a compromise led Britain to delay a decision on the future of Palestine. Later, after WWII and the Holocaust, there were many supporters of the Zionist clause, which is the national movement of the Jewish people that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory. In 1948, the State of Israel was declared. -
Public Support
President Truman announced his approval of the recommendation to admit 100,000 displaced people into Palestine. In October, he publicly declared his support for the creation of a Jewish state. -
Drawing political borders
The term drawing political borders refers to geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions. Some reasons for this divide is for governments, sovereign states, or federated states. Most borders are often open and unguarded, but the presence of the border is still known. The 1947 UN Partition divided the Israel land into three entities: a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone around Jerusalem. -
Partition Resolution
Resolution 181 was adopted by the United Nations, which divided Great Britain's former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states. Under this resolution, the area of religious significance surrounding Jerusalem would remain a corpus separatum under control administered by the United Nations. Corpus separatum is the term used to describe the Jerusalem area in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine to describe the shared religious importance. -
Establishment
David Ben- Gurion (head of the Jewish Agency) announced the establishment of the State of Israel. -
Sunni Shia Divide
The Sunni-Shia conflict has been going on for over a thousand years, dating back to when the Prophet Mohammed died in 632. These two religions are unable to live peacefully with each other because of theological differences in their faith. This represents a political and religious divide that shows sectarianism in the Middle East. -
Iranian Revolution
A revolution in Iran (1978- 1979) overthrows the present monarchy and establishes a Shia Islamic Republic under the rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. -
Shootout
More than 200 people are killed in northern Pakistan during a shootout between Sunni and Shia factions. This is an example of the unrest between the two political and religious groups. -
Elections
For the first time since 2003, Iraqi parliamentary elections result in a Shia majority government. -
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Overall Connection
I connected these three events because they are all very similar. Support for a Jewish state was a major conflict of interest, and the overall decision resulted in political borders being drawn to divide the Jewish and Arab governments. There was also a divide over the land of Palestine, which led to political borders being drawn between the Sunni and Shia governments as a solution to stop the violence and political unrest.
