of Arabs (an option that the British government had already ruled out). With dissent from some of its members, the Commission instead recommended a plan that would leave the Galilee under British mandate, but emphasized serious problems with it that included a lack of financial self-sufficiency of the proposed Arab State. The British Government accompanied the publication of the Woodhead Report by a statement of policy rejecting partition as impracticable due to "political, administrative and financial difficulties". At the Bloudan Conference of 1937, parties from all over the Arab world rejected both the partition and establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, thus claiming all of Palestine. See also Arab–Israeli conflict White Paper of 1939 Shaw Report References Sources Further reading Aharon Cohen, Israel and the Arab World (Funk and Wagnalls, New York, 1970) pp. 207–210 External links Summary of the Report of the Palestine Royal Commission (from the United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine – UNISPAL) David Ben-Gurion Laments Rejection of Peel Commission Recommendations Shapell Manuscript Foundation 1936 in Mandatory Palestine 1937 in Mandatory Palestine Documents of Mandatory Palestine