King Ibn Saud and Churchill meet at the Fayyum Oasis, Egypt, 17 February 1945. Between them is Ibn Saud’s interpreter: to the right, Churchill’s wartime ADC, Lieutenant-Commander ‘Tommy’ Thompson. Source: Martin Glibert, Churchill and the Jews: A Life Long Friendship; HMSO/British Ministry Of Information, Middle East
The British War Cabinet’s Committee on Refugees declined to pursue a possible arrangement for the exodus of large numbers of Jews from Nazi Europe ‘PARTLY BECAUSE IT COULD LEAD TO AN OFFER TO UNLOAD AN EVEN GREATER NUMBER OF JEWS ON OUR HANDS.’ Source: Wyman, David. The Abandonment of the Jews. P 98-100; New York […]
“Churchill (E.g. prime minister of Great Britain) 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 […]
“EVEN IF ONE ACCEPTS EDEN’S CONTENTION THAT TRANSPORTATION WAS NOT AVAILABLE, CAN ANYONE DOUBT THAT JEWS WOULD HAVE WALKED, IF NECESSARY, ACROSS THE BALKANS AND OUT THROUGH TURKEY? The hard fact of the matter is that despite the excuse used constantly throughout World War II that the rescue of Jews was impossible because of the […]
“The meeting in Washington with Eden (e.g. Anthony Eden British Foreign Secretary) dealt a crushing blow to the American Jewish leadership, as is reflected in the following description of the reaction of the Joint Emergency Committee when Rabbi Steven Wise and Proskauer reported back to it: “Over the entire meeting hung the pall of Mr. […]
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill noted the Arab influx. Churchill, a veteran of the early years of the British mandate in the Holy Land, noted in 1939 that: “Far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up […]
1911 The Shame of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill became The First Lord of the Admiralty and accelerates the transition of the Royal Navy from coal to oil, but most of the oil was imported. Source: Wiki
“On October 25, 1919, Churchill wrote a memorandum for the cabinet proposing that the Ottoman Empire should not be divided among the victorious powers, but preserved intact, and placed under the authority of the League of Nations. Such a plan would bring an end to the British Mandate in Palestine, and would lead to the […]
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 three or four millions of Jews, an event would have occurred in the history of the world which would, from every point of […]
1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill In his later years, he liked to boast that in 1921 he created the British mandate of Trans-Jordan, the incarnation of what still is the kingdom of Jordan, “with the stroke of a pen, one Sunday afternoon in Cairo.” Source: “Borderlines and Borderlands,” (pg 189) edited by Alexander C. […]