The King-Crane Commission Report August 28, 1919
No British officer, consulted by the Commissioners, believed that
the Zionist program could be carried out except by force of arms.
The officers generally thought that a force of not less than
50,000 soldiers would be required even to initiate the program.
That of itself is evidence of a strong sense of the injustice of
the Zionist program, on the part of the non-Jewish populations of
Palestine and Syria. Decisions, requiring armies to carry out, are
sometimes necessary, but they are surely not gratuitously to be
taken in the interests of a serious injustice. For the initial
claim, often submitted by Zionist representatives, that they have
a “right” to Palestine, based on an occupation of 2,000 years ago,
can hardly be seriously considered.