Quotation from Ronald Storrs “A little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism” — 1943

The first British governor of Jerusalem, comments on the British logic behind the decision of the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

Author : Thematics :
" Even though the land could not yet absorb sixteen million, nor even eight, enough could return, if not to form the Jewish State (which a few extremists publicly demanded), at least to prove that the enterprise was one that blessed him that gave [Britain] as well as him that took [Zionism] by forming for England a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism. "

Orientations or Memoirs of Sir Ronald Storrs , 1937, p.364.

Ronald Storrs, Orientations , definitive edition, Londres, 1943, p. 345.
Quoted by Moshe Mashover in Israeli conflicts and resolution , 2012, p. 270.

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