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and their swallowing up of the Palestinian people through it. The British government had announced that it would begin implementing the White Paper policy when conditions in Palestine calmed. Conditions did in fact calm after the outbreak of the Second World War, but implementation did not occur. The door of Jewish immigration remained wide open, including both the immigration the English called “legal” and the illegal immigration of Jewish immigrants, whose number, according to the British authorities, was no less than the number of those they called “legitimate.” The English continued their policy of evasion and sedation for several years, taking advantage of the opportunity offered by the Second World War, until in 1946 they completely repudiated the White Paper in response to Truman’s demand to bring one hundred thousand Jews into Palestine at once. They returned to the partition plan a second time by creating new committees of inquiry into Palestine to serve as a pretext for their new-old policy. They dealt their crushing blow to the Palestinian Arab people, and indeed to the Arab nation and the Islamic world as well, by throwing the Palestine question into the arena of the United Nations.

The Jews and Their Military and Political Activity:

The Jews rejected the policy contained in the British White Paper because it did not fulfill their ambitions. They wanted large-scale Jewish immigration, unrestricted and unlimited, and freedom to seize Arab lands, both state and private. They did not want a shared government with the Arabs in which they would be a minority. They wanted all of Palestine to belong to them. In other words, they wanted Palestine to be Jewish just as England is English, as their leader Weizmann expressed it. They also wanted “Greater Israel” from the Nile to the Euphrates. They therefore revolted against the policy of the White Paper and turned toward the United States to serve as their aid against Britain, even though Britain had never been an ally of the Palestinian people or of the Arab and Islamic peoples. It had followed a policy of maneuvering and evasion with the Arabs to secure its economic and military interests in the Arab and Islamic worlds, and because, with its prior experience in colonial methods and world politics, it was certain that the Second World War was coming and that it would be forced to enter it. It therefore could not do without conciliating the Arabs and Muslims as far as possible.

But the Zionist leaders, who had prepared themselves to serve their false cause, which does not