The British had to restrict Jewish immigration because the Arabs were so opposed to it. Winston Churchill, after railing from the back benches against the White Paper, reluctantly had to sign it as PM, because he didn’t want to rile the Arabs into another uprising, which happened anyway in Iraq in 1942, and when they failed to dislodge the British from the oil fields, they had a massive pogrom in Baghdad. 800 Jews murdered and thrown into a mass grave. The Grand Mufti, the Robespierre of Palestinian nationalism, was behind both the uprising and the pogrom.
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