Britain and Palestine During the Second World War. By Ronald Zweig. Brand new book, no ratings at Amazon or GoodReads. Print list price N/A; digital list price $3.99; Kindle price now
$0.99. Endeavor Press, publisher. 224 pages.
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Book Description
This major new work examines the radical change in British policy brought about through the publication of 1939 White Paper on Palestine.
Intended as the cornerstone diplomacy in the Middle East, guaranteeing Arab support in the war against Germany, it aimed at the termination of Jewish immigration and the creation of an independent Palestine.
Dr Zweig examines Palestine policy both in terms of overall diplomacy in the Middle East and as an attempt to shed the Mandate.
An exercise in colonial policy, it was undermined by political realities in London and practical difficulties in Palestine.
Describing how the only part effectively implemented was the limitation of Jewish immigration into Palestine – at the time when European Jewry was perishing under the Nazis – the author shows that Britain introduced the White Paper to terminate Arab revolt at the outbreak of War, only to be faced with Jewish revolt at the end of it.