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Under the British Mandate of The League of Nations Britain was obligated to allow Jewish immigration to what is now Israel. In fact originally Hitler wanted Eur
by davidf18 10y ago
Under the British Mandate of The League of Nations Britain was obligated to allow Jewish immigration to what is now Israel. In fact originally Hitler wanted European Jews to go there.
But the British broke their mandate with "The White Paper" in 1939 which severely limited Jewish immigration to their land.
If America had run the mandate instead of the British there probably would not have been The Holocaust and many millions more Jews would be alive today in Israel including presumably Anne Frank.
See:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939
- dublinclontarf 10y agoIf only Britain, France or the US had stopped Germany with force when it invaded the Rhineland, then the war may never have happened.
- siculars 10y agoSimilar perhaps to a "red-line" that was touted by the Obama administration but never enforced.
- madaxe_again 10y agoIf only the Dawes and Young plans didn't make another war inevitable, solely to generate wealth for US businesses. We can go on in this silly vein all day...
- opaque 10y agoand this counterfactual America would have responded how to the partly anti-mass-immigration revolt that caused the paper to be be written? History (and hypothetical history) are rarely that simple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%9339_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%9339_Arab_revolt_... > "...their land" The sentence is unclear if you're referring to it as British land or Jewish land, but either way it's contentious to say the least!