Directions: Base your answer to Question 1 on Document 1 and on your knowledge of social studies. Document 1 We recommend serious modification of the extreme Zionist programme for Palestine of unlimited immigration of Jews, looking finally to making Palestine distinctly a Jewish state. A “national home for the Jewish people” [quoted from the Balfour Declaration] is not equivalent to making Palestine into a Jewish State; nor can the erection of such a Jewish State be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine. The initial claim, often submitted by Zionist representatives, that they have a "right" to Palestine based on an occupation of 2,000 years ago, can hardly be seriously considered. Source: “Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission with regard to Syria-Palestine and Iraq (August 29, 1919),” set up during the Paris Peace Conference concerning what to do with the dismantled, former Ottoman Empire. 1. Explain the historical context around the King-Crane Commission. [1] written like a 8th grader in 35 wor dlength
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The King-Crane Commission was created during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Its purpose was to decide the future of territories previously controlled by the Ottoman Empire, including Syria-Palestine and Iraq. The commission recommended modifying the extreme Zionist program for Palestine, as it believed that turning Palestine into a Jewish state would violate the rights of non-Jewish communities already living there. The commission also doubted the legitimacy of the Zionist claim to Palestine based on an occupation from 2,000 years ago.
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