Faisal–Weizmann Agreement

The Faisal - Weizmann Agreement is January 3, 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference between Arabs ( delegation leader Emir Faisal ) and Zionists ( delegation leader Chaim Weizmann ) made ​​agreement on the political reorganization of Palestine, which never entered into force.

The Faisal - Weizmann Agreement, certain establishing consensual state borders for the result sought by Faisal Arab Kingdom and the aims of the Weizmann according to the Balfour Declaration Jewish state. The Arabs agreed so that the disentanglement of Palestine from the Arab Kingdom and the existence of a Jewish- Zionist state in principle.

The Agreement emphasized the common ancestry of the Jews and Arabs of Palestine and also laid religious freedom and the freedom of access of Muslims to the holy Islamic sites in palestine. Britain was intended to arbitrate in disputes.

In the conclusion, however, Faisal made ​​it clear: "I will make the provisions of this Agreement effective as soon as the Arabs have gained their independence under the conditions that are listed in my memorandum which I sent on January 4, 1919, the British Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, if [ the conditions of my memorandum ] would also subjected to only the lightest change, I would be bound not a word more to be null and void contract and no longer obligated to observe. "

Faisal made ​​the effectiveness of the entire contract that is dependent on the Arabs receive their promised independence. This condition was not met, because the Arabs were not their independence, but were divided between France and the United Kingdom and placed under guardianship.

The agreement of the Agreement held only briefly. British and French had agreed during the First World War in (secret) Sykes- Picot agreement about dividing their spheres of influence in the Middle East and France urged now to the fulfillment of the agreements. For this reason, the British withdrew in late 1919 back from the Lebanese-Syrian coast and the French took over the League of Nations Mandate for Syria and Lebanon.

The Arabs were against this development hostile, their goal was the establishment of a large- Syrian kingdom. Faisal was proclaimed on March 8, 1920 king. As part of the Arab nation woke up feeling the majority opinion called Palestine as Southern Syria for the Arab Kingdom and expected by Faisal the distancing of the Agreement. At the latest after the anti- Jewish riots on April 4, 1920 during the Nabi Musa riots, the objectives of the Faisal - Weizmann Agreement had become obsolete.