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“During this period, a new proposal, emanating from Roosevelt, was conveyed to London by his emissary to the Middle East, Colonel Hoskins. Roosevelt advocated that Palestine be turned into a Permanent Trustee State, administered by a High Commissioner responsible to the United Nations, guided by a Council representing Jews, Christian, Moslems. JEWISH IMMIGRATION MIGHT CONTINUE, […]
1944 The Shame of Winston Churchill “Churchill himself was convinced of the need to delay any decision on Palestine, not only until the successful conclusion of the European war, but more specifically, at least until after the American Presidential elections due to be held in November 1944.“ Source: Palestine: Retreat From The Mandate, by Michael […]
March 1944 India, Muslims, and Oil Lord Eden Killearn to British Cabinet Committee “… Scrap the White Paper and Mandate and come out boldly with a decision to keep Palestine ourselves as a vital link in our defense system … our physical control should be definite and unlimited … both sides would squeal … but […]
June 1944 Population Transfer of Germans Because of the havoc Hitler had unleashed on behalf of Germans outside Germany, in 1944 Churchill endorsed—with Roosevelt and Stalin agreeing—ethnic cleansing. Postwar stability would be built by scrubbing Germans from non-German countries. “Expulsion,” said Churchill, “is the method which … will be the most satisfactory and lasting.” Source: […]
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al Hasanji (Husseini): “To the Reichsfuehrer SS and Minister of the interior H. Himmler Reichsfuehrer: In my letter to you of June 5, 1944, I referred back to our conversation in which I reported to you on the inclusion of Jews in the exchange plan of some Egyptians […]
September 15, 1944 India, Muslims, and Oil The Cabinet Committee on Palestine (recommending against Foreign Office opinion of the partition of Palestine): “… Whatever American sentiment may be, we run the grave risk, if we embark on a policy of partition, of losing to America the pre-eminent place we have always held, and which in […]
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem: “To the Reichsfuehrer and Reichsminister H.Himmler Headquarters of the Fuehrer Reichsfuehrer! I permit myself to call to your attention the renewal of the dangerous demands of the Jews, with the support of the Allies, for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, as well as the approval given by […]
February 1945 Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon Declare War on Germany The whole temperament of the Arab world before and during World War Two was neutralist at best, pro-Nazi at worst. When Italian troops in August, 1940, invaded Egyptian territory, Egypt did not consider this a cause for war. The fighting was left to […]
King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and President Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting on board the USS, Quincy, off Alexandria, Egypt, as Roosevelt returned from the Yalta Conference to the United States, 14 February 1945. Source: Martin Glibert, Churchill and the Jews: A Life Long Friendship; Library of Congress
Source: Martin Glibert, Churchill and the Jews: A Life Long Friendship; HMSO/British Ministry Of Information, Middle East