The mandates overlap and conflict.
"The mandates of science," Abnesti said.
During the British mandate in Palestine, Christians were around 20percentt of the population; today they're under 2percentt because of tremendous emigration.
"During the British mandate, Palestinian farmers exported many varieties of agricultural goods," says Wahbeh Asfour, project manager at the Ma'an Development Center, which started the Kale Project to help grow more food in the West Bank.
During the British Mandate period, Abu Ghosh's largely Muslim population had good relations with Jews; Abu Ghosh sat out the 1948 war, when Arab gunmen used the surrounding hills to ambush convoys bringing supplies to besieged Jerusalem.
During the British Mandate, the Palestinian community and Jewish colonies were expected to run their own education systems.
During the French mandate, Homs was part of the State of Damascus.
During the British Mandate it became a Palestine Police base with a Tegart fort.
During the British mandate, the Jews were still forbidden inside the tombs to pray, although a Jewish presence had always been maintained in the city prior to British rule.
