WOH-1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: White Paper Of 1939, Biltmore Conference, Ralph Bunche
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There were now a lot of jews in palestine . The british were looking at the situation in palestine, and found out that they would probably have to ght another war with germany. The 1939 white paper issued by the british. It stated that palestine would be granted full independence within ten years. Limited amount of jewish immigrants allowed in the country. Window for jewish immigrants was going to close within the next ve years unless the arab population agreed to letting jews in. This angered many zionists - they saw the british as going back on their word. The arab population of palestine was not pleased because they felt it didn"t go far enough . They didn"t want independence in ten years, they wanted it now. British didn"t have much support when the war did begin. Not a lot of actual ghting occurred in the middle east during the second world war except in .
