Thursday, June 09, 2011

Who Suggested "Let the Arabs be encouraged to move out"?

Here, in the House of Commons:

...in 1944, the present Prime Minister [Clement Attlee], who was then the Deputy Prime Minister, with full access to all Government secrets, supported, as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the report of the National Executive of the Labour Party, which said: ‘There is neither sense nor meaning in a 'Jewish National Home' unless we are prepared to let Jews, if they wish, enter this tiny land in such numbers as to become a majority. Let the Arabs be encouraged to move out as the Jews move in.’

The person speaking was Brigadier Harry Mackeson (later Sir) MP for Folkestone and Hythe on 12 August 1947.

3 comments:

aparatchik said...

Is there no opportunity to encourage the Arabs to move out now, e.g., buy out whole villages, make them millionaires and wish them good luck in some country that needs millionaires?

Anonymous said...

Imagine an Israeli practice of Judaism that incorporated morality.

Der Shygetz said...

BS"D

The Lubavitcher Rebbe ZYA suggested compensated deportation for the Arabs in Yerushalayim years ago. He suggested 100 lira per head, but whether he meant that sum or was just trying to show that Arabs had no real connection to the place is unclear. I also don't know when he said it (I'd have to check the video which I do not have handy) and how much 100 lira was worth then.

Sadly, the Arabs are buying Jews (in name only - largely Russian erev rav) out in places like Natzeret Illit with money provided by the Gulf states.