Peel Commission
Formally, the Palestine Royal Commission. In 1936, following an Arab revolt, a British Royal Commission of Inquiry set out to propose changes to the British Mandate of Palestine. It was headed by Lord Robert Peel. In 1937, it eventually recommnded that the Mandate be abolished - except in an area surrounding Jerusalem, streatching to the coast just south of Jaffa - and the land under its authority (and accordingly, the transfer of Arab-Jewish populations) be apportioned between a Palestinian and a Jewish state. The Jewish side was to recieve a terriotrially smaller portion in the mid-west and north, from Mount Carmel to south of Be'er Tuvia, as well as the Jezreel Valley and the Galilee, while the Palestinian state was to recieve territory in the south and mid-east which included Judea and Samaria, and the Negev. The British government and parliament accepted Lord Peel's recommendations. The plan was never implemented as the Arab population of the British Mandate of Palestine rejected the plan, while amongst the Jewish population opinion remained heatedly divided.
Report of the Palestine Royal Commission
United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL)