Arabs constituted around 90% of the population of Palestine, butas stated by Ronald Storrs, Britain's Military Governor of Jerusalem between 1917 and 1920they were "not so much [named but] lumped together under the negative and humiliating definition of 'Non-Jewish Communities'". Additionally, there was no reference to protecting the political rights of this group, as there was regarding Jews in other countries. This lack of interest was frequently contrasted against the commitment to the Jewish community, with various terms used over subsequent years to regard the two obligations as linked. A heated question was whether the status of both groups had "equal weight", which the British government and the Permanent Mandates Commission held to be the case in the 1930 Passfield white paper.
Arabs constituted around 90% of the population of Palestine, butas stated by Ronald Storrs, Britain's Military Governor of Jerusalem between 1917 and 1920they were "not so much [named but] lumped together under the negative and humiliating definition of 'Non-Jewish Communities'". Additionally, there was no reference to protecting the political rights of this group, as there was regarding Jews in other countries. This lack of interest was frequently contrasted against the commitment to the Jewish community, with various terms used over subsequent years to regard the two obligations as linked. A heated question was whether the status of both groups had "equal weight" which the British government and the Permanent Mandates Commission held to be the case in the 1930 Passfield white paper.