Speech #790139332

The mandate that Great Britain was given over Palestine was given with the understanding that Great Britain would exercise only trusteeship. not ownership. over Zion. to the end that there would be established. through the instrumentality of His Majestys Government. a Jewish national home. We adopted in this Chamber in 1922 a resolution almost word for word with the. resolution you are going to adopt today. whereby we proclaimed again Palestine as the Jewish national home. and we entered into a solemn treaty with Great Britain in 1924 where we reiterated that Palestine was again to be the national homeland for the Jews. We further stated by that treaty. and agreed with England. that England would not have the right to discriminate on the basis of race or religion with reference either to the immigration into Palestine or land ownership in Palestine. But in 1939 Great Britain adopted the nefarious and infamous MalcolmMcDonald white paper. which flatly. blatantly. and with the greatest perfidy violated the treaty with the United States. violated the mandate that Britain had over Palestine. violated the Balfour Declaration. Britain did in that white paper discriminate against the Jews only.