Quotation from Bob Boothby “Resettlement of the Arab population … This should, have been carried out ... by the British” — Jan. 14 1964

President of the Anglo-Israeli Association, referring to the development and consequences of the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

Author : Thematics :
" For my part, as a life-long Zionist, I never had any doubt that the creation of a National Home for the Jews must result in the establishment of the State of Israel and that the consequences of this must be faced. I thought, and said long ago, that a steadilly increasing immigration of Jews from all over the world to a country the size of Wales, without great natural resources, was quite unrealistic unless accompagnied by some This could, and should, have been carried out between thirty and forty years ago by the British government, on lavish lines, when they had both the power and the money to do it. How, otherwise, could they hope to implement the pledges they had given ? "

Jewish Chronicle, January 14, 1964, p. 7. Quoted by Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992, p. 16.

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