On Trying to Be Portugal
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Zionist Terrorism, 6 August 2009
‘A Senseless, Squalid War’: Voices from Palestine 1945-48
by Norman Rose.
Bodley Head, 278 pp., £20, March 2009,978 0 224 07938 9 Show More
by Norman Rose.
Bodley Head, 278 pp., £20, March 2009,
Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War against Jewish Terrorism 1945-48
by David Cesarani.
Heinemann, 290 pp., £20, March 2009,978 0 434 01844 4 Show More
by David Cesarani.
Heinemann, 290 pp., £20, March 2009,
“... semitic peoples’, as Magnes called it, though he too expected large-scale Jewish immigration. Richard Crossman, who was a member of the commission, concluded that Magnes ‘represented nothing real in Palestine’. This was sadly confirmed by Hourani’s saying that a binational state could work only ‘if a certain spirit of co-operation and trust exists ... ”