UK archives reveal Palestine plan

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By Rick Fountain
BBC, London

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Secret wartime discussions about Palestine between Winston Churchill and the future Israeli President Chaim Weizmann led to an icy exchange with Anthony Eden, the British foreign secretary, according to official papers just released in London.

A top-secret Colonial Office file from 1943 shows that Mr Churchill favoured a plan to try to bribe King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, with £20m and the leadership of a new Arab confederation, in exchange for the Saudi monarch's help in handing over Palestine to the Jews.

As Mr Eden pointed out to his boss, such a move would be the opposite of British official policy.

The idea was put to Mr Churchill by Dr Weizmann, at that time head of the Jewish Agency, the body which acted for the Jewish community in Palestine in the years of the League of Nations mandate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3681840.stm

Bribing the Saudis??????????Always wondered where the BFEE got the inspiration....

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1. Maybe Bush is Churchill afterall

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2. Churchill was a hard drinking man but never joined the Godsquad

and Junior ain't got a cigar!