Depth Study How-To

Structure:

Introduction:

Outline an area of similarity

Outline a strength of one

Outline a weakness in the other

Which one are you arguing for

Paragraph 01: why is it convincing using quotes and supported by evidence

Paragraph 02: why is it unconvincing using quotes and supported by evidence

repeat for other interpretation

Conclusion on what one is more convincing

Practice

Balfour:

  • supported it but did not entirely do everything the Zionists wanted

  • politcal lobbying by chaim weizmann

  • US supported Zionism (Wilson)

  • wanted to end the war with the Ottomans

  • maybe they overestimated Jewish influence globally

  • contradicted Mcmahon Hussein correspondences

  • loss of allies e.g. in Russia

  • Not everyone supported the Balfour declaration e.g the King Crane commission, the Palin commission

British leaving:

  • cost £40 million

  • Suez canal was no longer important

  • US was adding pressure for a zionist state

  • Holocaust meant public sympathy for Jews

  • Jewish Resistance Movement had formed and were attacking British forces

  • King David Hotel bombing

  • Sergeant’s affair

  • SS exodus and bad public image

  • tensions with both Arabs and Palestinians

Arabs leaving:

  • forced expulsion argument: plan dalet, jewish executive agency, expanded from 55% of land to 79%, bombing in Tiberias, Haifa and Jaffa,

  • But was plan dalet only embraced by far right Zionists like Yosef Weitz

  • Arabs fleeing: Egypt told them to flee, fear, lack of organised government structures, only 6/392 villages willingly fled

  • Evidence that it was probably more forced expulsion than willing

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