[Somberness seems to permeate the atmosphere of the auditorium.]
As it turned out, Britain made additional promises to the Palestinians such as the White Paper of 1939, which limited future Jewish immigration and land purchases and which, once again, promised independence to the Palestinians. But the Zionists saw the White Paper as a betrayal to the Balfour Agreement.
[Amid the somber atmosphere in the auditorium, someone said what many others felt, “Not again.”]
Already one can see some of the early actions, or lack thereof, that exacerbated the current conflicts between the two respective sides.
Then the situation worsened when, following World War II, U.S. President Harry Truman recognized the state of Israel on May 15, 1948, and when, shortly thereafter, Israel declared its indepen
