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Meeting with a Palestinian Arab delegation in May 1930, Lord Passfield, the British colonial secretary, rejected its demand for a parliament in Palestine "elected by the people in proportion to their numbers, irrespective of race or creed." Instead, he suggested-as had British officials before him-that they create an Arab Agency along the lines of the Jewish Agency set up in accordance with the terms of the Mandate. Putting aside potential British obstruction and non-recognition, why were the Arabs both unwilling and unable to create an Arab Agency? What were the consequences of not having an organization comparable to the Jewish Agency and similar Zionist manifestations of civil society? Would an Arab Agency have been a good idea or not? How might the existence of an Arab Agency have affected subsequent negotiations?