The Peel Commission, a royal commission headed by Lord Peel, was appointed in 1937 to examine the "Palestine problem." In response to the Arab Revolt against British rule in Palestine, the Peel Commission heard testimony from more than 130 Jews, Zionists, Palestinian Arabs, and other Arab nationalists before issuing its report. The commission's report, published in July 1937, called for the partition of Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a British-controlled corridor from Jerusalem to the coast at Jaffa. It also recommended relocating people to deal with the delicate population balance between Jews and Arabs in the proposed Jewish state. The partition plan was accepted as a pragmatically valid principle for settling the Arab-Jewish dispute by the majority of the offical leadership of the Zionist movement who urged further examination of the British proposals. The Arab side rejected the compromise, with the exception of Abdullah of Transjordan