“Massacres of Jews in Several Towns Follow Retreat of Denikin’s Army.” Paris. Feb. 25.― Southern Russia was the theatre of a fresh a outbreak against the Jews during the retreat of General Denikin’s army, according to advices received by thr Committee of Jewish Delegations here. Massacres are reported to have taken place at Bagopol, Golta, […]
Winston Churchill: “If, as may well happen, there should be created in our lifetime by the banks of the Jordan a Jewish state under the protection of the British crown, which might comprise 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 Jews, an event would have occurred in the history of the world which would, from every point of view, […]
Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India for nearly 7 years and then Foreign Secretary of Great Britain from 1919 to 1924. “As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world … if we lose it we shall drop straight away to a third rate power.” Viewing the Empire from this India-centric […]
“The work of the great Theodor Herzl as completed at San Remo. (e.g. April 1920) the effort to acquire the public recognition of the Jewish homeland in Palestine for which he lived and died has been crowned with success. The nations of the world have done all that they could do. The rest lies with […]
“It is impossible to speak of any common national sentiment in Syria, since its population consists of so many diverse elements, often with conflicting interests and ideals. It may, however, be roughly divided for the present purpose into (i) Moslem, (ii) Christian (including Orthodox and Catholic), and (iii) Jewish. Each of these must be considered […]
Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British Foreign Secretary, made these comments regarding the drafting of the Palestine Mandate: “… development of a self-governing Commonwealth’. Surely most dangerous. It is an euphemism for a Jewish State, the very thing they accepted and that we disallow;… “The Zionists are after a Jewish State with the Arabs as hewers […]
Despite Herbert Samuel’s liberal reputation, most Arabs viewed his appointment as High Commissioner in 1920 with dismay, seeing the placement of a Jew as British acquiescence to the Zionist cause, with little regard for Arab concerns or demands. In the Arabic paper Al-Kuds opinion was expressed as such: “The appointment of Herbert Samuel will not […]
The platform of the Third Arab Congress, Haifa, 1920, consisted of six elements, two of which are: –Total rejection of any political or moral rights of Jews over Palestine. -A call to the new [British] administration to halt any transfer of Arab or state lands to Jewish control. Source: 52, p. 81.
Lord Balfour: “And I hope that, remembering all that, they will not grudge that small niche, for it is not more geographically in the former Arab territories than a niche – being given to the people who for all these hundreds of years have been separated from it, but who surely have a title to […]
Chaim Weizmann: “Our historical rights to the country can only be realized side by side with the Arab population. I trust that cooperation will convince them that we are not coming in the spirit of Prussian Junkers, but in the spirit of those serving a sacred national ideal, to whom right and justice are the […]