The British Attitude towards the Arab Community in Palestine after the Second World War

On 25 April 1945, two weeks before the Second World War officially ended, the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee (JIC) submitted its report to the War Cabinet on the possibility of major Arab disturbances in Palestine. The JIC’s meetings, held in Cairo, examined the issue in full, 1 concluding that major Arab disturbances in Palestine would occur in the following circumstances: cancellation of the White Paper of 1939 and resumption of unrestricted Jewish immigration; reluctance of the British government to take effective counter-measures against large-scale illegal immigration; partition; proclamation of Palestine as a Jewish State, or action by the British government which appeared to be a preliminary to making Palestine a Jewish State.