Decision on Palestine Deferred - America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945

Zusatztext 'Decision on Palestine Deferred provides an invaluable contribution to Holocaust and World War II scholarship! as well as the history of the creation of the State of Israel. Whereas historians have tended to address each subject separately! Penkower details their important interrelationship.' - Middle East Quarterly Informationen zum Autor Monty Noam Penkower Klappentext On 1 March, 1943, Chaim Weizmann, the elder statesman of Zionism, addressed a rally in Madison Square Garden to "Stop Hitler Now!." Three months earlier, a public declaration by the Allied governments had acknowledged that the German authorities were implementing Adolf Hitler's oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe. Some 2,000,000 Jews had already been killed since the beginning of World War II by the Third Reich and its collaborators, yet a deafening silence resounded throughout free world corridors of power. Alas, Weizmann's and similar heartfelt pleas went unanswered. Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury and Arthur Cardinal Hinsley called on that same occasion for speedy deeds to meet the most appalling horror. Faced with the crime of the Holocaust - Christianity and Western humanism abdicated moral responsibility to try to save an innocent people. Without that decay of conscience, already evident in the years between Hitler's advent to power and the Nazi blitzkrieg againstPoland, European Jewry would not have gone abandoned into the night. Over the past two decades, access to most of the archives has enabled historians to authenticate this grim truth. Political expediency reigned supreme in the war counsels of those governments which alone could have checked the tempo of Hitler's Final Solution of the Jewish problem. Zusammenfassung Professor Penkower's latest book offers the first sustained, documented account of Palestine and the Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War. Inhaltsverzeichnis an important addition to the histories of both wartime diplomacy and the foundation of Israel"- Middle East Journal...

Product details

• Authors: Monty Noam Penkower, Penkower Monty Noam
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2002
• EAN: 9780714652689
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-5268-9
• No. of pages: 402
• Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Israel, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, General & world history, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), General and world history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater