David Pryce-Jones

Trouble In Palestine

Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism, 1945–1948

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A last-minute addition to the British Empire, Palestine was always troublesome. The British presence there brought no very clear political or strategic advantage, only an immense moral dilemma. Nobody had the imagination or the skills to reconcile the local Arabs and Jews, two communities with cultural and national values in complete opposition, as is still in evidence today. 

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