Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 119)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 119)

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July 1922, the League of Nations provided Britain with a mandate over
Palestine, while Syria and Lebanon were placed under France's mandate.
However, since Britain's military forces had already been in Palestine
since 1818, the League of Nations ruling was, as one author put it, "a
formality which gave Britain an international legality over its
occupation of Palestine" (Gozansky, 1986:97).
From the outset, Britain created the office of High Commissicner
and empowered it with full legislative and administrative powers. The
High Commissioner, in turn appointed other British officials as
Commissioners of each district. The indigenous population, on the
other hand, were totally excluded from forming any part of the
administration.
Despite its status as mandated territories, Palestine had many
important features in common with ordinary British colonies.
Referring to this point, Owen says: “Although nominally only a
“mandated ' territory and subject to certain international
restrictions preventing the mandator power from establishing any
Special privileges for itself (for example with regard to trade) it
would seem that these were largely disregarded in practice". The
British government, Owen continued, "had a typical system of colonial
finance with revenues drawn largely from indirect taxes, notably the
external tariff, and avery high proportion of government expenditure
on security and defence" (Owen, 1982:4).
By assuming exclusive rule over Palestine, the British government
had in fact breached the agreement signed with France in 1918. The
British mandate over Palestine became sharply different from
France's mandate over Syria and Lebanon, where indigenous Syrians
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