Remarks by the Right Honorable Winston Churchill

“The Jewish people who have through centuries of dispersion and persecution patiently awaited the hour of its restoration to its ancestral home.”

Those were the words.  They were the people outside, not the people in.  It is not with the Jews in Palestine that we have now or at any future time to deal, but with world Jewry, with Jews all over the world.  That is the pledge which was given, and that is the pledge which we are now asked to break, for how can this pledge be kept, I want to know, if in five years’ time the National Home is to be barred and no more Jews are to be allowed in without the permission of the Arabs?