"Arab pressure and riots resulted in Churchill issuing the “White Paper” of 1922 which, while reiterating the right of the Jewish people to a national home in Palestine, permanently detached the area of the Jewish homeland east of the Jordan River"
No doubt there was Arab pressure, but as a Brit I think what the British did in the Jordanian part of Mandate Palestine is very telling. Transjordan was excluded from the area in which Jews could settle. Essentially it was declared out of bounds for Jews, while non Jews, including Christians and Muslims of various ethnic origin, could live there.
The British built up an army there, which despite being led by British officers and including Caucasian muslims was called "the Arab Legion".
They continued to fund, train, arm, and provide leadership for the Arab Legion up to and during the 1948 war, when the Legion killed or expelled all Jews living in Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem and "the old city".
Uti possedetis juris. It’s all Israeli land.
"Arab pressure and riots resulted in Churchill issuing the “White Paper” of 1922 which, while reiterating the right of the Jewish people to a national home in Palestine, permanently detached the area of the Jewish homeland east of the Jordan River"
No doubt there was Arab pressure, but as a Brit I think what the British did in the Jordanian part of Mandate Palestine is very telling. Transjordan was excluded from the area in which Jews could settle. Essentially it was declared out of bounds for Jews, while non Jews, including Christians and Muslims of various ethnic origin, could live there.
The British built up an army there, which despite being led by British officers and including Caucasian muslims was called "the Arab Legion".
They continued to fund, train, arm, and provide leadership for the Arab Legion up to and during the 1948 war, when the Legion killed or expelled all Jews living in Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem and "the old city".
They were not friends of the Jews.
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