Palestine: The official record

British perfidy on partition. A remarkable document for two reasons. The first:

[It] proves the falsity of the common perception that the creation of Israel was a project of Western colonialism. The Nation shows that during the half year prior to the all-out Arab invasion on 15 May, Britain incited, micro-managed and did public relations work for a campaign of Arab troop infiltration and terror. And this at a time when Britain was responsible for security in its Palestine Mandate territory.

The second: It was compiled by The Nation.

The Nation’s memorandum reminds us, moreover, that there was a time when the left shared this sense of outrage. Who would have foretold, when the Nation wrote this memorandum in 1948, that within sixty years the left would be playing the part that the British had played then.