Two Booklets Issued by the Arab Executive – Jerusalem, 1925 – Two Memoranda Submitted to the League of Nations / ...

Two Booklets Issued by the Arab Executive – Jerusalem, 1925 – Two Memoranda Submitted to the League of Nations / Report on the State of Palestine Submitted to the High Commissioner Herbert Plumer
Two booklets issued by the Executive Committee of the Palestine Arab Congress (the Arab Executive), signed in print by the secretary, Jamal al-Husayni. Jerusalem: Beyt-UL-Makdes, 1925. English.
1. Two memoranda submitted to the Council & Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations… by the Executive Committee, Palestine Arab Congress, 12 April, 1925. Jerusalem, April 1925.
Two memoranda submitted to the League of Nations: a memorandum on the British Mandate for Palestine (which does not, according to the petitioners, keep the British promises to the Arabs in the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence); a memorandum regarding the discriminatory British policy towards Palestinian Arabs
32 pp. 23 cm.
2. Report on the state of Palestine submitted to His Excellency the High Commissioner for Palestine by the Executive Committee, Palestine Arab Congress on the 13th of October, 1925. Jerusalem, October 1925.
A report submitted to High Commissioner Herbert Plumer with an interesting review of the state of Palestine during the first years of the British mandate: the pro-Jewish activities of the previous High Commissioner, Herbert Samuel; mass Jewish immigration; the failure to develop industry in Jewish cities; governmental monopolies granted to the Jews (such as the Palestine Salt Company in Atlit and Rutenberg's power station); and more. The report states the demand of the Arab Executive from the Mandate authorities: the establishment of a Jewish-Arab state, with government representatives of both nations, the number of which will be based on their relative population percentage in Palestine before the World War.
30 pp. 23 cm.
Good overall condition. Original covers, stained.
The Arab Executive was the central political institution of the Palestinian national movement from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. It was established in December 1920 and operated under the leadership of Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husayni (1853-1934) throughout its existence.
The Arab Executive strived for the establishment of an independent Arab state with an elected legislative body, espousing non-violent methods – writing petitions, meeting with representatives of the British governments, sending delegations to London, publishing newspaper articles, and more. In 1934, with Husayni's death, the Arab Executive fell apart (and was replaced by the Arab Higher Committee, which supported a violent struggle).