From Diplomacy to Resistance: A History of Jewish Palestine, by Yehuda Bauer

From Diplomacy to Resistance: A History of Jewish Palestine, by Yehuda Bauer

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This will not come by the force of our demands on the government. It will come either by lack of any other way out or as a result of our own political activity. A condition is possible in the country where we may reach that point, not only because of our political but also because of our security needs. ” If partition was not turned into a matter of slogans, Berl Katznel­ son and his followers could support a Zionist struggle, toward the outcome of which each might entertain his own concepts. Even Ben-Gurion finally agreed to this formulation.

Ben-Gurion answered with an unqualified yes. 12 After the rejection of their proposals of February 15, the British advanced a slightly revised proposal on the 20th, in which the number of immigrants was fixed at fifteen to thirty thousand per year for a period of ten years (that is, an aliyah of up to 35 to 40 percent of the country’s population). After ten years, an Arab veto over immigration would take effect. An al­ ternative proposal also was made, according to which immigra­ tion would be more restricted but the Arabs would not receive the veto; instead, the entire problem would be restudied later.

S. O. Playfair. Playfair specifies that the advisors who counseled the government on this matter were none other than the chiefs of staff. He also states that the land route claimed special atten­ tion from the chiefs of staff because of the fear that the sea and air routes would be cut off by the Italian army and navy, which were operating bases in Eritrea and Ethiopia. That route then led from Palestine (by way of the desert station Rutba, on the Transjordan-Iraq border) to Habbaniya, the British airfield, and from there to the Persian Gulf.

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