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Why Israel owes a debt to Stalin

November 29 marks the 70th anniversary of the UN Partition vote

November 23, 2017 15:01
How the JC reported the decision
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"‘I’m disappointed in you, Dick. The report you have produced is grossly unfair’. 

“I was genuinely puzzled and said: ‘Unfair to the Jews or to the Arabs?’

“To this he replied crossly: ‘No, unfair to Britain, of course. You’ve let us down by giving way to the Jews and Americans’.”

So wrote Richard Crossman, Labour MP, about “a desultory and unsatisfactory interview” with Prime Minister Clement Atlee in 1946.