Although the Brits were pressured into closing the gates of Palestine once the war began, in the 1930`s when the Brits had the task of setting up the Jewish homeland, they had a large number of places allocated to Jews -- and these places were often unfilled because so few Jews from Europe were interested in coming to Palestine. Churchill was deeply commited to a Jewish state and when he arranged for 77% of Palestine to become what is now Jordan, he
expected the remaining 23% including the West Bank and Gaza to be part of the Jewish state. During the war a quarter of British troops in North Africa were Muslims, mainly from what is now Pakistan, and Britain couldn`t risk a war with the Muslims in Palestine. |
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