by hadassah | Aug 20, 2017 | Winston Churchill
June 1922 The Shame of Winston Churchill The Royal (Peel) Commission of 1938 The field in which the Jewish National Home was to be established was understood, at the time of the Balfour Declaration, to be the whole of historic Palestine, and the Zionists were...
by hadassah | Aug 20, 2017 | Winston Churchill
July 1922 Shame of Winston Churchill July 1922 Shame of Winston Churchill “Economic absorptive capacity of Palestine (e.g. for immigration of Jews). As I am the author of the phrase, perhaps I may be allowed to state that economic absorptive capacity was never...
by hadassah | Aug 13, 2017 | India Muslims and Oil, Winston Churchill
Jan 27 1939 The Churchill White Paper The Churchill White Paper no longer held good with regard to the phrase, ‘as of right and not on sufferance’. ‘As of right’, McDonald told his colleagues, in complete contradiction to anything that could be found in the Churchill...
by hadassah | Aug 13, 2017 | India Muslims and Oil, Winston Churchill
May 23, 1939 The Shame of Winston Churchill May 23, 1939 The Shame of Winston Churchill “To whom was the pledge of the Balfour Declaration made? It was not made to the Jews of Palestine, it was not made to those who were actually living in Palestine. It...
by hadassah | Aug 10, 2017 | British Mandate of Palestine, India Muslims and Oil, Winston Churchill
February 1942 The Shame of Winston Churchill Churchill pointed out that up to the time that the decision to deport “illegal Jewish refugees” on-board the Darien refugees had been taken: “It looked as if we should be subjected to a wave of...
by hadassah | Aug 10, 2017 | India Muslims and Oil, Winston Churchill
February 24, 1942 The Tragedy of the “Illegal” Immigrant Ship, Struma In December 1941, The Struma, an over 100 year old cattle boat left the Romanian port of Constanza with 769 Jews on board, 669 more than its normal complement. It contained only one toilet,...
