UN General Assembly
1965

"... When it is asked what is meant by the development of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, it may be answered that it is not the imposition of a Jewish nationality upon the inhabitants of Palestine as a whole, but the further development of the existing Jewish community, with the assistance of Jews in other parts of the world, in order that it may become a centre in which the Jewish people as a whole may take, on grounds of religion and race, an interest and a pride .. ." Such statements, which were given time and again by the British Government proved to be nothing else but a smokescreen designed to appease the revolting Arabs. 73. Some light was shed on the integrity of British war-time pledges to the Arabs by Lord Balfour himself in a memorandum dated 11 August 1919, in which he wrote: