March 16, 1921 British Restrict Jewish Immigration to Palestine “The Conference recommended that Trans-Jordania should be constituted an Arab province of Palestine under an Arab governor, responsible to the High Commisioner. On this assumption they recommended the immediate military occupation of Trans-Jordania, without which they understood that it would be impossible to secure a settled […]
March 28, 1921 British Restrict Jewish Immigration to Palestine “The Secretary of State received influential Moslem and Jewish deputations, and assured them both that there would be no change in the declared policy of His Majesty’s Government. The Balfour declaration contained declared policy of His Majesty’s Government. The Balfour declaration contained two distinct promises, one […]
16 March , 1922 (b) The object aimed at by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of nations is “ the well-being and development of the people” of the land. Alien Jews not in Palestine do not come within the scope of this aim. Neither is their association with Palestine more cloe than […]
Albert Einstein Upon being asked by Rabbi Herbert Goldstein, of the Institutional Synagogue of New York, if he believed in God, “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.” Source: The Wall Street Journal […]
November 19, 1929 Albert Einstein On Zionism “I came to the concept of Zionism only after moving to Berlin in 1914 at the age of 35; until then I had lived in a totally neutral environment. But since then it has become quite clear to me that in order to maintain or better still regain […]
October 1930, British Restrict Jewish Immigration to Palestine Sir Hope Simpson “The whole system under which immigration into Palestine is controlled by the administration has recently been most carefully examined, and in the month of May (e.g. 1930) it was considered necessary by his Majesty’s Government, whilst leaving undisturbed Jewish immigration in its various other […]
December 31st, 1930 Albert Einstein “The scientific organization and comprehensive exposition in accessible form of the Talmud has a twofold importance for us Jews. It is important in the first place that the high cultural values of the Talmud must be made an open book to the world, in order to cut the ground from […]
April 17 1933, The British Restrict Jewish Immigration to Palestine. Minutes of the First British Cabinet Committee to discuss the problem of German Jewish refugees “The number of Jewish refugees who could be allowed to enter that country (e.g. Palestine) is strictly conditioned by what the country can absorb. Although the matter is strictly one […]
“Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man” Source: Washingtonpost.com, Why Science Does not Disprove God, book review, Amire Aczel, April 4, 2014
November 13, 1936 “Doubtless the British Government always has been and possibly always will be in a dilemma on the whole Palestine question. The fact that the mandate over Palestine, in which is enshrined the Balfour Declaration, calls for the establishment of a Jewish national home here and the fact that the Arabs oppose the […]