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To: Neocon who wrote (123876)	1/28/2004 4:31:40 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Do you know of anyone in a position of actual authority among the major Western powers who was clearly pro- Hitler?" ".... Unfortunately that is the last time Britain and British Zionists did anything to aid the Jews. Shortly after this acknowledgement the British did everything possible to thwart the mandate given to them. In fact they failed miserably in their fiduciary responsibility to the Jews and contributed, as will be seen below, in thought and deed to the destruction of the Jews in the Holocaust. Already by 1920 the British had set a quota on Jewish immigration despite the San Remo conference establishing the British Mandate of the League of Nations as "A Jewish National Home". In March of 1921 there was a secret memorandum between Winston Churchill and Lloyd George to treat Eastern Palestine as an Arab province in complete contravention of the mandatory agreement.[6] Therefore even though the ink on the mandate to create a homeland for the Jews was virtually still wet, the British summarily abrogated it and unilaterally altered its map and its purpose to suit their own geopolitical concerns. By splitting off the eastern area of the mandate the British summarily reduced the area of the Homeland from 46,000 square miles to 8,000 square miles. The remaining 38,000 square miles did not officially become the country of Jordan until 1946. Jews who had lived in towns and villages in what was now Eastern Palestine for centuries were uprooted and forced to leave. In 1921 the British High Commissioner appointed a virulently anti-Semitic Arab fanatic Haj Amin al-Husseini as the Mufti of Jerusalem. Shortly after his appointment the first onslaught of Arabs against the Jews of Jaffa and Petach Tikva began. This riot was "abetted" by British Officials", according to the historian de Haas. The Haycraft Riot Commission concurred in its October 1921 report with de Haas's conclusions. The British response to this rioting was not to attempt to fulfill the mandate requirements that Jews be allowed into Palestine but was to increase the restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine (or what was left of it). In 1928 The "Organic law" provided separate Commissions for Palestine and TransJordan respectively. This was in total contravention of the Mandate as there was only one mandate given to the British. Incidents took place at the Wailing Wall with Arabs incited by Mufti Haj Amin to anti-Jewish attacks. The British response was to do nothing to stop the Arabs or to protect the Jews. In 1929 The Arabs massacred Jews in Safed and Hebron. Rioting and assaults were perpetrated on Jewish settlements and Jerusalem by "deliberate religious influence" The Mufti was heard to cry, "Itback al-Yahud "Slaughter the Jews!" (Parkes History) The British were informed prior to the riots that that major rioting was about to break out. Other then assuring the Jews that they were aware of the situation, the British stood by and watched without interfering. Then when it suited their purposes they easily and quickly quelled the riots. The riots lasted seven days and 67 residents of Hebron were slaughtered by the frenzied mobs. - This riot could easily have been prevented if the British had chosen to do so. In 1930 State lands were allocated for "landless Arabs[7]" (the Hope Simpson report) instead of for Jewish settlement as required by the Mandate. The Jews were restricted from acquiring this land. In 1933 Muslim riots during the festival of Nebi Rubin were sparked by violent speeches against Jewish immigration. Strikes and anti-Jewish riots occurred. The British authorities made no attempt to stop this. In 1934 30,000-35,000 Arabs from the Hauran immigrate illegally into western Palestine in a three month period. The British deny their existence and omit them from their statistical survey of the population of Palestine and all British data records. Yet they use the increasing Arab population to justify restricting Jewish immigration to "that which the land can support". They insist that the growing Arab population is secondary to Arab fertility and categorically deny Arab immigration as a factor. In 1936 Anti-Jewish pograms and riots occur. Arab strikes take place fomented by religious leaders and aided by imported assistance of hired Syrian and Iraqi mercenaries. These riots are known as the "Arab Revolt". No action on the part of the British Government, to protect Jews or to carry out their mandate, except to form another commission. In 1937 a Royal commission is appointed to investigate the deteriorating Palestine conditions, over 100 Jews, moderate Arab and government personnel have been murdered by followers of Haj Amin. 150 more were wounded and the Jews are primarily blamed by the British for the unrest. For the first time a Royal Commission recommends partition of Palestine into a smaller Jewish and a larger Arab state further diluting the original mandate of a Jewish Homeland. The Arabs roundly reject this solution In 1938 Mufti-led guerrilla warfare aided by imported Arab rebels includes anti-Jewish pogroms, assassinations of other Arabs, ambushes of the military and general sabotage. The British response is to further restrict Jewish immigration into the "Jewish Homeland". This is the same year as the Evian Conference (see below). In 1939 The British Government publishes its White Paper that enforces a new rigidly pro-Arab anti-Mandate policy restricting Jewish immigration to a token 75,000 Jews, total, spread over the years between 1940 and 1945. Thereafter the Jewish immigration into Western Palestine will be at the discretion of the Arabs of Palestine. In addition this white paper prohibits transfers of most land in (western) Palestine, "except to a Palestinian Arab". The Evian Conference mentioned above was held in 1938. At the conference were thirty-two countries whose purpose was to solve the problem of Jewish refugees. Even observers from Nazi Germany were allowed to audit the proceedings. Jews, as such, were not represented because "they did not have their own state" (remember that was one of the goals of the Mandate given to Britain as outlined above) Chaim Weitzman the leading spokesman of the Jews was prohibited from speaking even in private at the conference because Great Britain protested against allowing him to speak. The US failed to even set a tone conducive to rescuing refugees by stating at the outset that none of the nations would be expected or asked to receive a greater number of immigrants than is permitted by "existing legislation". The US then proceeded to 'magnanimously' state that it would continue with its quota of 27,370 immigrants from Germany and Austria. As a result of this, none of the other conference participants with the exception of Santo Domingo offered to increase their quotas on immigrants.. Santo Domingo offered to take 100,000 refugees. It was in no small measure because of the cynicism displayed at this conference that Hitler (who had previously offered to send Jews to countries willing to accept them by means of luxury liners at government expense) realized that the world cared not one whit for the Jews. This was probably one of the bases for his deciding on the 'final' solution of the holocaust. The British in the meantime used the Evian conference to turn the Mandate on its head. British secretary of foreign affairs Anthony Eden aimed for a "plan that would not give Jews any territory exclusively for their own use". There was no attention given to "Justice" in government policy. Eden wrote to his private secretary, "If we must have preferences, let me murmur in your ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews". His secretary noted in his own diary in 1943 that "Unfortunately A.E. is immovable on the subject of Palestine. He loves Arabs and hates Jews". Others in control of Palestine with similar anti-Jewish views were Malcolm MacDonald, British Colonial Secretary who speaking out of both sides of his mouth said that Britain could not continue to carry out the Balfour Declaration and at the same time justified their white paper of 1939 as carrying out the obligations of the Mandate to "Arabs and Jews". This inversion of policy was reported as: "It was therefore necessary to devise an alternative policy consistent with the obligations to Arabs and Jews under the Mandate. The Statement declared unequivocally that it was not part of this policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State as this would be contrary to the obligations to the Arabs under the Mandate..." (Anglo-American Committee Survey, vol. I, pp. 52-53). Nowhere did the Mandate convey any obligations to the Arabs at the time of the Balfour declaration. It stated only the obligations of Britain to provide for a Jewish National Homeland. This inversion existed only in the disingenuous and mendacious British mind. In summary, almost as soon as the Balfour declaration was declared and almost before the San Remo conference ended the British sold the Jewish birthright to the Arabs. Their management of the Mandate was perfidious. It resulted in restrictions of Jewish immigration into what was meant to be a Jewish homeland (thus putting to naught all of the work of the Christian Zionists of the previous centuries) while allowing nearly unrestricted Arab immigration. The British tore away over 70% of the Mandate and gave it to the Arabs to satisfy British geopolitical needs. In this eastern Palestine they allowed the Arabs to promulgate an "Arab Law of Return" that allowed any Arab to return but not Jews! They falsified Arab immigration data or flatly denied its existence instead concocting fantastic tales about the prodigious natural increase of the Arab population. They stood by calmly while the Arabs were incited to riot time and time again against the Jews, by Arab religious leaders. Instead of protecting their Jewish wards, they sought to prevent Jews from defending themselves. They took little action when Arab fanatics continuously murdered Arab moderates so that none were left with whom the Jews could even hold constructive talks. When State lands were made available for settlement they allowed them to be transferred and sold only to Arabs while restricting Jewish settlement on what was to be the Jewish homeland. They actively prosecuted and persecuted desperate Jews who attempted illegally to immigrate into their Homeland to escape the "gathering storm" in Europe. At the Evian conference their last chance to perform an act of Justice toward world Jewry, they failed miserably in their fiduciary responsibility toward the Jews as a people and to their mandated responsibility under their League of Nations mandate. Instead of allowing unrestricted or even increased Jewish immigration into Palestine the designated homeland of the Jews, they slammed the doors shut knowing full well that this would result in the destruction of the Jews of Europe. They did this maliciously and callously. The Nazi observers to the Evian conference sensing that there were no defenders of the Jews quite rightfully concluded that they had a free hand to deal with this powerless people. Eli Weisel surveying the destruction of the Holocaust stated that "powerlessness invites the abuse of power". And the British guaranteed that powerlessness. Lastly when the British sought allies among the Arabs in their war against the Germans it was the Jews of Palestine that formed brigades and volunteered to fight. The Arabs defected as fast as they were recruited into the British brigades and saw little action. The Mufti of Jerusalem in fact was meeting with Hitler and urging him to kill all the Jews in Palestine after Hitler had won the war and defeated Britain. In fact he was urging all of his Arabs to revolt against the British. Therefore there may have been an earlier Christian British Zionism that was helpful to the Jewish cause. But the British failed mightily in the obligations that they had voluntarily assumed. Their official policy aided and abetted the destruction of World Jewry and for that I am not willing to forgive them. The actions of British Prime Minister Tony Blair today and the condescension and sneering anti-Semitism expressed among the British elite and their newspapers leads me to believe that official policy has not changed nor has the underlying British anti-Semitism that resulted in the massacre and expulsion of the Jews so many centuries ago. Had the British lived up to their mandate the whole sale slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust might have been averted. The position of Jews in the Middle East, in a significantly larger country that contained much more defensible borders, might have been assured. Instead of numbering only a mere 12 to 14 millions in the world we might well be more than 20 or 30 million. Instead of being pariahs we might have been a nation like any other. You may turn your face away from history but that doesn't change the facts. I stand by my accusations. William Lipsky" mailman.io.com