{"id":229,"date":"2016-01-23T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:29:14","slug":"politics-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-4\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The territory that now encompasses Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jordan was joined under British control in 1923 by a League of Nations mandate and named \u201cPalestine.\u201d<\/strong> In 1927, Great Britain issued the first definitive stamps of Palestine. These trilingual stamps reflect the United Kingdom\u2019s \u201cdual obligation\u201d to both the incoming Jewish populations and the existing Muslim and Christian communities. They depict<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the Dome of the Rock, Rachel&#8217;s Tomb, the Tower of David, and a view of a mosque in Tiberias by the Sea of Galilee, all sites<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of great significance to these three religions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rather than emphasizing common heritage, these images reinforced land disputes and they remain ubiquitous on stamps in the region today as expressions of solidarity or authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-381\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx029md\" width=\"800\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md.jpg 1295w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-768x974.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-807x1024.jpg 807w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-100x127.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-150x190.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-200x254.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-300x381.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-450x571.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-600x761.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx029md-900x1142.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>British Mandate Palestine<\/strong>, 1927 \u00a0 | \u00a0 Postage stamps mounted on collector\u2019s album page \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The territory that now encompasses Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jordan was joined under British control in 1923 by a League of Nations mandate and named \u201cPalestine.\u201d In 1927, Great Britain issued the first definitive stamps of Palestine. These trilingual stamps reflect the United Kingdom\u2019s \u201cdual obligation\u201d to both the incoming Jewish <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/1025"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}