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Foreign pressure from foreign states implicated with Israel was the primary reason for giving the Zionist enemies an opportunity to prepare and ready themselves and multiply their strength many times over. Arab inattention and failure to appreciate the Zionist danger properly was another reason for this neglect. As a result, the United States was swept by a massive campaign of Zionist efforts to supply Israel with financial and military aid and political support. It even permitted Israel to offer its loan bonds for sale on the American financial markets and allowed American Jews who wished to donate to Israel to contribute what they owed in taxes under the name of donations to charitable projects. The proceeds of these donations amounted to tens of millions of dollars every year. The American government authorized the issuing bank to provide Israel with enormous loans and American officials to conduct propaganda and collection campaigns for the Jewish state, as Mr. Barkley did while serving as vice president.

Mr. Anderson, undersecretary of commerce in President Eisenhower’s administration, announced on 15 March 1953 that the United States government and people had provided the Jews in Palestine, during the period from 1948 to 1952, that is, over four years, with approximately one billion dollars in gifts, grants, and loans.

The American government was likewise a powerful factor in inducing the West German government to pay enormous financial compensation to the Jews, amounting to forty-three billion five hundred million marks, equivalent to eleven billion dollars, or four billion pounds sterling before its devaluation, or thirty-four billion Lebanese lira. This amount was later increased to approximately fifty billion marks. This is separate from the sums Jews received as compensation from the German Krupp factories and from the two hundred million dollars the Jews obtained from the government of Nazi Germany.

7. Most Arabs treated the Zionist conspiracy and Jewish ambitions lightly and attached no weight to them. I would see a smile of dismissal and astonishment on the lips of many Arab leaders, politicians, and dignitaries when I spoke to them about the coming Jewish dangers. Some even told me frankly that it was inconceivable that Britain would risk its relations and sacrifice its broad interests in the Arab and Islamic worlds to appease the Jews and show contempt for the Arabs and Muslims, and that it was merely deceiving the Jews and delaying them.