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1937/8 – The British government first proposes dividing the Mandate into Jewish and Arab states (in the Peel and Woodhead Commissions), it then does a u-turn and declares that dividing Mandatory Palestine into two states is untenable.
1939 – While unfettered Arab immigration swells, made possible by Britain’s unrestricted immigration policy for Arabs to Mandatory Palestine. Britain issue the White Paper, a policy paper which severely restricts Jewish immigration to Palestine. For context, in 1939 Jews were being subject to Nazi persecution in Europe and Britain kept these immigration quotas in place throughout the Holocaust (if they had lifted them millions of Jews could have potentially found refuge in Israel).
1946 – Britain creates internment camps in Cyprus to imprison Jews attempting to enter Mandatory Palestine. Over 53,000 Jews are held captive and 400 die, many of whom had just escaped the Nazi death camps.
1946 – Britain puts the entire city of Tel Aviv, 200,00 Jewish residents, under house arrest.
1946 – British antisemitism is rife. The then British Palestine Commander, Lt. General Evelyn Barker, issued an order banning British troops from socialising with Jews. He went on to say, “[We] will be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes as much as any, by striking at their pockets and showing our contempt of them”.1 In a letter to a lover he wrote “Yes I loathe the lot – whether they be Zionists or not. Why should we be afraid of saying we hate them. Its time this damned race knew what we think of them – loathsome people” 2
1947 – The British government requests France and Italy prevent Jews from embarking for Palestine.
1947 – The British ask the American government to ban fundraising for Israel, the Truman administration capitulates.
1947 – In a United Nations vote on the partition of Mandatory Palestine, 72% voted for the creation of Jewish and Arab states. Britain was one of two Western nations that refused to vote.
1948/9 – After Israel had been established. Britain again refused to vote in favour of admitting Israel to the United Nations (on both occasions Israel sought admission).
It should be noted that not all Britons were against the Zionist ideal. People like Orde Wingate, Winston Churchill, Lord Balfour, Herbert Samuel and many other pro-Zionist individuals helped lay the foundations that Jewish Statehood was later built upon, but British support was short lived. In the early 1920’s oil was discovered in the British Mandate of Iraq and the lure of oil money was too strong. British foreign policy took a u-turn, shifting their allegiances from supporting a Jewish State to Arab nationalism.
http://www.israeladvocacy.net/knowledge/the-truth-of-how-israel-was-created/britain-created-israel/