“it certainly wasn’t intended”
quotes:
“My personal hope,” Balfour told a friend in 1918, is that
the Jews will make good in Palestine and found a Jewish State.”
That same year Lord Robert Cecil declared:
“Our wish is that the Arabian countries will be for the Arabs,
Armenia for the Armenians, and Judea for the Jews.”
In 1920, Churchill, who had served as a minister of munitions
when the Balfour Declaration was issued, spoke of
“a Jewish State by the banks of the Jordan which might
comprise three or four million Jews.”
And in 1919, Smuts, also a former member of the War Cabinet,
envisaged the rise of “a great Jewish State.”
Lloyd George was quite explicit in his description of the cabinet’s proposal:
“It was contemplated that when the time arrived for
according representative institutions in Palestine,
if the Jews had meanwhile responded to the opportunity
afforded them by the idea of a National Home
and had become a definite majority of the inhabitants,
then Palestine would thus become a Jewish Commonwealth.
The notion that Jewish immigration would have to be
artificially restricted in order to ensure that the Jews
should become a permanent minority never entered into the heads
of anyone engaged in framing the policy.
That would have been regarded as unjust and as a fraud
on the people to whom we were appealing.”
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And again I ask:
What could a “National Home for the Jewish People”, or
a trust until the people were ready for sovereignty, mean,
other than a Jewish state?