Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2015

Origins of the Palestine Mandate

Adam Garfinkle

November 2014

Foreign Policy Research Institute

Abstract

Like everything else historical, the Palestine Mandate has a history with a chronological beginning, a middle, and, in this case, an end. From a strictly legal point of view, that beginning was September 29, 1923, and the end was midnight, May 14, 1948, putting the middle expanse at just short of 25 years.