By David A. Charters
The 1st entire scholarly examine of the British Army's crusade opposed to the Jewish insurgency in postwar Palestine, this ebook exhibits how superseded doctrine, conventional resistance to alter, and postwar turbulence hampered the army's efforts to switch its counter-insurgency strategies. It additionally exhibits why the protection forces did not increase intelligence enough to defeat the insurgents.
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The Holocaust, of course, lay in the future and for the time being the Jews had little choice but to ally themselves with Britain against the Nazis. But the lesson of the Arab rebellion was not lost upon certain extreme elements of the Palestinian Jewish community: Britain had capitulated to coercion and the Arabs had achieved {heir objectives; if the Arabs could succeed by using violence, the Jews could as well. Some of these Jews were sufficiently frustrated by the White Paper to consider armed revolt.
The Chiefs of Staff 'emphatically' endorsed Hall's conclusions about the risks to the British position in the Middle East arising from implementation of the commission report, but they also had doubts about the feasibility of the 'Provincial Autonomy' plan. Bevin, too, had his doubts; his thinking was now directed towards some variant of partition. Nonetheless, on 11 July the Cabinet authorised Sir Norman Brook, Secretary to the Cabinet and head of the British negotiating team, to discuss Hall's plan with the AmericansY4 36 The British Army and Jewish Insurgency British persuasion worked; on 19 July Henry Grady, the chief American delegate, recommended to Secretary of State Byrnes that the US agree to support the 'Provincial Autonomy' plan.
The 'Biltmore Program' called for: abrogation of the White Paper; the creation of an independent Jewish army fighting under its own flag and command; vesting the Jewish Agency (the movement's executive arm in Palestine) with control of immigration and development of Palestine; and the establishment of Palestine as a Jewish commonwealth; in short, an independent state. 57 With the exception of the demand for a Jewish army, the Agency presented this programme to the British government in May 1945, coupled with a demand for an international loan and other assistance to transfer the first million Jewish refugees to Palestine.