--- mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chuck Grimes:
>
> "Once the British got the Balfour declaration into
> the
> League of
> Nations Mandate for Palestine (1920), and the
> establishment of a
> Jewish Agency, the British set about controlling
> Jewish immigration
> through the Jewish Agency. Remember this history is
> simultaneous with
> Lawrence and Faizal. I think I would say the Brits
> were not bumbling
> or indifferent. They were pro-actively suppressing
> Jewish immigration
> into Palestine. That become much clearer in the 30s
> when the Nazis
> took power and the need for immigration became
> obvious
> and
> desparate. The British stalled and put up more and
> more restrictions."
>
>
> Segev takes on this thesis and demolishes it. The
> British made a few half-hearted attempts and issued
> a
> lot of rhetorical fluff about restricting Jewish
> immigration, he says, but they almost always gave in
> to Zionist demands in the end, in part, Segev says,
> because they thought the Jews controlled both New
> York
> and Moscow and had better be heeded. When the Nazis
> came along, they did issue more substantive
> restrictions, but these were were often just
> ignored.
>
> Of course, I'm just parroting Segev's book, since I
> know nothing else, but the evidence he offers of
> British bumbling is extensive and breathtaking. And
> I'm still struck by this idea that anti-Semitism
> fueled the Balfour Declaration. That just blows my
> provincial mind.
>
>
>
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