What is Mandatory Palestine?
{{use dmy dates}} {{use British English}} {{expand Arabic|topic=hist}} {{Infobox document |document_name = League of Nations – Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan Memorandum |image =Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument).png |image_caption =British [[Command Paper]] 1785, December 1922, containing the Mandate for Palestine and the Transjordan memorandum |image2 = BritishMandatePalestine1920.svg |caption2 = Whilst the Mandate for Palestine document covered both Mandatory Palestine (from 1920) and the [[Emirate of Transjordan]] (added in 1921), Transjordan was never part of Mandatory Palestine.{{efn|group=lower-roman|name=Garfinkle}}{{efn|group=lower-roman|name=Wasserstein}}{{efn|group=lower-roman|name=Biger}}{{efn|group=lower-roman|name=Abu-Lughod}} |date_created = Mid-1919 – 22 July 1922 |date_effective = 29 September 1923 |date_repeal = 15 May 1948 |writer = |location_of_document = [[United Nations Office at Geneva|UNOG Library]]; ref.: C.529. M.314. 1922. VI. |signers = [[League of Nations|Council of the League of Nations]] |purpose = Creation of the territories of Mandatory Palestine and the [[Emirate of Transjordan]] }} {{nakba}} '''Mandatory Palestine''', sometimes referred to as the '''British Mandate of Palestine''', was a [[League of Nations]] [https://www.britannica.com/topic/mandate-League-of-Nations mandate] to the [[United Kingdom]] in [[Palestine]]. It began after the [[British]] had conquered Palestine from the [[Ottoman Empire]] in [[World War I]]. At the [[San Remo Conference]], on April 25, 1920, the mandate for Palestine was granted to Britain. The mandate became officially operative on September 29, 1923. The mandate ended when the British returned it to the [[United Nations]] on May 15, 1948. The mandate period was characterized by the conflicting [[Nationalism|nationalist]] interests and efforts of the Arabs and the Jews in Palestine. Because of the [[Balfour Declaration of 1917|Balfour Declaration]], the Mandatory government started off sympathetic to the [[Zionism|Zionists]]. Thi