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Thursday's UN General Assembly vote to recognize the Arab political
entity in Judea-Samaria as a "non-member observer state" at the UN is
not "historic" in the sense of something new. Rather it is merely the
last in a long series of violations of commitments made to Jews and the
Jewish state of Israel by Western and Arab and Muslim powers. This
international inclination was already at work in the 19th century when
various new states created by the Congress of Berlin [1878] promised to
treat their Jewish populations with respect and equality. Well, that was
the 19th century. Did the 20th century change this tendency to betray
Jews and the promises made to them? Of course not, The Bolsheviks who
took over the Russian Empire in 1917 vowed to grant Jews equal rights in
their new Soviet empire and to fight antisemitism. Did they keep their
word? Stalin who assumed absolute power in the state by 1930 violated
his promise of course, although he was capable of denouncing
antisemitism intelligently to foreign journalists and sympathizers of
the Soviet Union. By the late 1930s, Stalin's rival Trotsky denounced
antisemitism in the USSR itself [in an interview with the
Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward of New York] which he still
considered a "workers state." That is, Trotsky still viewed the USSR
positively from his viewpoint.
Now let's look at the promises made and broken to Jews concerning the
Land of Israel. In 1920, the San Remo Conference assigned the Land of
Israel to the Jews as the Jewish National Home. The League of Nations
endorsed this position in 1922, based on the historic connection of the
Jews to the Land. The League also confirmed that Britain was to be the
power entrusted by the League to foster development of the Jewish
National Home according to the Mandate, a document of 28 articles,
including "close settlement by Jews on the land" [Article 6]. It is
clear that the Jewish National Home status applied to the historic Land
of Israel on both sides of the Jordan, just as the Roman Province of
Judea stretched over both sides of the Jordan. Yet in that same year,
1922, the British cut off Transjordan --the area east of the Jordan--
from Jewish settlement, albeit Article 25 of the Mandate gave the UK the
authority to postpone application of the Mandate's provisions east of
the Jordan "with the consent of the Council of the League. . ."
Nevertheless, early in the history of the Mandatory government of the
country, the British were restricting Jewish immigration [`aliyah] and promoting anti-Jewish Arabs --such as Haj Amin el-Husseini-- at the expense of the Jews.
The culmination of British betrayal came in 1939 with issuance of the
"Palestine White Paper." This new policy, found in violation of
Britain's mandate from the League of Nations by the League's Permanent
Mandates Commission, was a unilateral cancellation of the Jewish
National Home, the purpose of the mandate. The White Paper limited
Jewish immigration into the country to 15,000 per year for the next five
years. After that the Arab majority --led by the Nazi sympathizer, Haj Amin el-Husseini--
was to govern the country and future Jewish immigration would require
Arab agreement. Now 1939 was precisely a year in which tens of thousands
--if not hundreds of thousands-- of Jews were trying to flee the
countries already controlled or occupied by the Nazi Germans for lands
of refuge. Haim Weizmann, the Zionist leader, said that the world was
divided into countries where Jews could not live and countries where
Jews could not enter. So Britain, with Arab approval and encouragement,
was denying Jews refuge in the internationally designated Jewish
National Home. Moreover, although the White Paper --on paper--
stipulated that 15,000 Jews per year could enter the country, this quota
was not even filled in the war years, in the Holocaust years. Even
worse, British diplomats in southern European countries used their
influence to prevent Jews from leaving those countries by ship or small
boat in order to escape the Nazis. Nor did the British state radio, the
BBC, even report the Holocaust until it was well under way. Hence, when
the Jews most needed a home, Britain, abetted by the Arabs, denied it
to them. This justifies calling the UK "a silent partner" in the
Holocaust.
Britain has never apologized for or asked forgiveness for its acting as a
Holocaust "silent partner," unlike France. French presidents Jacques
Chirac & Francois Hollande both apologized for the Vichy French
government's role in facilitating the Holocaust in France. Yet the
apology doesn't seem to have done much good in view of France's current
support for the genocidal Arab statelet or semi-state of "palestine,"
which just the other day was recognized by the UN General Assembly as a
state, although it does not fit the criteria for a state as enunciated
in the Montevideo convention. Again, the UK has never acknowledged its
Holocaust role. Whereas France under Vichy was violating its ostensible
principles of freedom equality and brotherhood by betraying the Jews,
the UK was violating its formal commitment to foster the Jewish National
Home made to the League of Nations.
To Be Continued with Part II
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