A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 21)

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A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 21)

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passive stand vis-a-vis the imminent danger of Zionism.
Since the proclamation of the Balfour Declaration, the
adoption of the Mandate System, and until 1948, Arab
popular. peaceful and violent cutbreaks tooks place, start-
ing with resistence movements in 1920 through 1933,
followed by the famous nation-wide strike of 1936, and
the massive popular revolt of 1937.
2. As aresult of Arab resistence, which reached its
climax in 1938, and as a result of the coming of World
War II, Britain pretended that it had conceded to the
Arab claims, and published in May 1939 the White Paper,
in which it unequivocally declared that « it is not part
of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish
state. » The White Paper also repealed the partitioning
of Palestine which was recommended by the Peel Com-
mission of June 1937. As for immigration, the White
Paper provided for the admission of 75,000 Jews beginn-
ing in April 1939 and for the next five years, after which
period no further Jewish immigration would be allowed.
It also proposed the termination of the Mandate and the
establishment, within ten years, of an idependent state
in Palestine with a two-thirds Arab majority.
3. The Zionists rejected, and bitterly condemned
the proposals expounded by the White Paper. They also
declared that immigration should continue ; and that
the Jewish National Home postulates the establishment
of the Jewish state, In 1944, Zionist terrorism moved
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