The Lie of Those Who Claim that Britain Sincerely Sought to Solve the Palestine Problem - Jabotinsky's Response to ...

The Lie of Those Who Claim that Britain Sincerely Sought to Solve the Palestine Problem - Jabotinsky's Response to Ernest Bevin - Special Publication at the End of World War II

An Answer to Ernest Bevin: Evidence Submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission (House of Lords, London, February 11, 1937) - A Response to Ernest Bevin by Vladimir Jabotinsky, Published by Bernard Ackerman, New York, 1946. "Mr. Bevin has turned the clock back ten years. The eloquent proof lies in the fact that the following evidence presented by Vladimir Jabotinsky in 1937 constitutes a complete answer to his words. It seems as though Mr. Jabotinsky wrote this composition just last week, and it reveals the lie of those who claimed that Britain sincerely sought to solve the Palestine problem."

Jabotinsky's courageous response to Ernest Bevin's questions during the Royal Commission's visit to Palestine in 1937 to discuss the Jewish-Arab problem. The editors reissued Jabotinsky's response, written about ten years earlier, to demonstrate how he was right in the long term, as the nine years that passed since, which included the greatest war in human history, proved the accuracy of his predictions one by one. The booklet was published as a defiant voice against the British government, which had committed to act against the White Paper but at that time not only failed to do so but also took actions to stop Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel and to restrict the Jewish settlement.

"Mr. Bevin has turned the clock back ten years. The eloquent proof lies in the fact that the following evidence presented by Vladimir Jabotinsky in 1937 constitutes a complete answer to his words. It seems as though Mr. Jabotinsky wrote this composition just last week, and it reveals the lie of those who claimed that Britain sincerely sought to solve the Palestine problem" (from the introduction to the booklet).

In his response to the Commission (presented here in a question-and-answer format exactly as Jabotinsky delivered it), he emphasized the existential danger facing the Jewish people in the Diaspora, which was more severe than ever before. Only after World War II (after Jabotinsky had already passed away) did it become clear how prescient he was and how correct his words were. (This was not the only time he foresaw the future. In October 1932, Jabotinsky warned that "the situation in Germany may improve... but it will be bad for the Jews.") In the course of the discussion, Jabotinsky deliberately used the term "Jewish state, " stressed the connection between the suffering of the Jewish people and their dispersion in the Diaspora, pointed out certain expressions used by Balfour in his Declaration in the context of Jewish independence, explained that the Zionist movement did not intend to bring Great Britain into a conflict with global Islam, and emphasized the importance of a fighting military force to protect the Jews of the Land of Israel in the future State of Israel, as in any civilized country. He also corrected Mr. Bevin on inaccuracies regarding clauses in the Balfour Declaration and in the interpretation of global terms dealing with the essence of the definitions of "nation" and "state, " among other things. It is important to note that when the 1939 White Paper was published, which limited Jewish immigration to 75,000 people, Jabotinsky instructed his movement to increase the pace of the illegal immigration it was conducting, "Aliyah Bet." Throughout this period, Jabotinsky feared a terrible catastrophe about to befall the Jews in Europe: "Sometimes I fear that it is already later than the eleventh hour; perhaps the clock has already struck twelve, meaning midnight, meaning—the end... Humanity sits and awaits the Angel of Death. And among this humanity, we are, the Jews."

Ernest Bevin (March 9, 1881 – April 14, 1951) a British politician, one of the leaders of the Labour Party, and a minister during and after World War II. He is known in the history of the struggle for the establishment of the State of Israel as the one who led British policy to prevent free Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel after World War II and as the person who brought the question of the future of the Land of Israel to the United Nations General Assembly after the end of the British Mandate. During that period, he was considered "enemy number one" of the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.

32 pages. Softcover. Light stains on the cover. Good condition.