Safety First! “To be or not to be…this is the question” John Bull– Under the obligations of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty, I have only to put one foot on the eastern side of the Canal to make of the so-called Mandated Palestine another camp of concentration for the defence of the British Empire…
Dr. Weizmann’s Letter to the Permanent Mandates Commission, pp. 5-14 Protest against provisions of White Paper, pp. 5-9 *Subjects Jewish National Home to Arab rule *Perpetuates Jewish minority position *Places Jewish immigration at mercy of Arabs *Envisages termination of Mandate by aborting its primary purpose *Rejects reasons given for White Paper restrictions, pp. 9-14 Memorandum […]
“His Majesty’s Government have now received the report of the Palestine Partition Commission…It will be noted that the four members of the Commission advise unanimously against the adoption of the scheme of partition outlined by the Royal Commission….Their conclusion is that, on a strict interpretation of their terms of reference, they have no alternative but […]
When my wife awakened me earlier than usual and I looked out of the window on to the green and gold of a spring morning in Galilee, it seemed too fair a day on which, deliberately, to extinguish human life, whether by legal processes or otherwise. However, as District Commissioner of Galilee and Acre I […]