ABSTRACT
The end of the Second World War found the Zionists at a cross-roads. On the one hand, they were faced with the shattering consequences of the Holocaust which extinguished their hopes for preparing a Jewish State for the great reservoir of Eastern European Jewry. In addition to that, the Damoclean sword of the 1939 White Paper was still hanging over their heads with its ominous articles concerning limited immigration and the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state. On the other hand, the Holocaust was their best justification for Zionism, being the best proof that if anti-Semitism could reach such catastrophic proportions, the Jews could no longer rely upon the Gentiles, but must enhance their efforts to bring about a Jewish state.
