by hadassah | Nov 19, 2008 | Returning and Redemption, The Arab Revolt
Click here to view the complete Palestine- Statement of Policy (Cmd. 6019) – May 1939 (The White Paper of 1939). In the statement on Palestine, issued on 9th November 1938, His Majesty’s Government announced intention to invite representatives of the Arabs of...
by hadassah | Nov 6, 2008 | The Arab Revolt
The Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 As Hitler rose to power in Germany and began to implement the genocide of the Jewish people, increased numbers of Jews immigrated to Palestine, legally and illegally. At the Cairo Conference in 1921, a partition of Palestine was...
by hadassah | Apr 16, 2008 | Returning and Redemption, The Arab Revolt
The commission’s report, a lucid and impressive document, was published in July 1937. In it’s main findings it declared- The disease is so deep-rooted that, in our firm conviction, the only hope of a cure lies in a surgical operation… An irrepressible conflict has...
by hadassah | Apr 16, 2008 | Returning and Redemption, The Arab Revolt
Sanctions!.. John Bull – My country has on July 13th. raised the white flag and lifted the sanctions of Italy… Mussolini – To be accurate, my old man, the sanctions were lifted on April 19th. when they were imposed on...
by hadassah | Apr 16, 2008 | The Arab Revolt
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...
by hadassah | Apr 16, 2008 | Returning and Redemption, The Arab Revolt
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...
