"It has been urged that the expression 'a National Home for the Jewish people' offered a prospect that Palestine
The demands of the world, including the United States, attempt to force us back into being a subservient colony.
might in due course become a Jewish State or Commonwealth. His Majesty's Government therefore now declare unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State." 

"Within the Land Transfer Acts of February 1940, in order to prevent any economic expansion of the minority Hebrew community, the High Commissioner of Palestine was further empowered to prohibit the purchase of land by Jews. Making use of these powers, the Land Transfer Acts of February 1940 restricted the zone in which Jews were free to buy land to five percent of the total area of the country.... According to the terms of the international Mandate, the White Paper could only gain legal validity if endorsed by the League of Nations.  The last word now rested with the League's Council. It was to meet in September 1939.  It never met, and the White Paper never acquired legal validity." (Thieves in the Night, by Arthur Koestler, written 1946)

Today we witness a blatant attempt to reinstate the infamous White Paper of those days when our nation was struggling to survive here in our homeland, trying to flee the murderous plans of the Nazi regime, and at the same time fighting to settle the Land. Today, we are supposed to be a sovereign state and not limited to the dictates of foreign powers. 

Today we are supposed to be mature enough as a nation to stand up and demand our rights to live, to build and to settle our land anywhere we wish.

But alas, today as then, the demands of the world, including the United States, attempt to force us back into being a subservient colony dictated to by both our enemies and our so-called friends. 

The attempt to force Israel into freezing building in the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria is bitterly reminiscent of the bloody days of the British Mandate, when even refugees fleeing the monstrous, murderous Nazis were prevented from finding the only safe haven they had, the Land of Israel. Today, the plan also extends to include the eternal capital of Israel, Jerusalem, in a plan to remove Jewish sovereignty from the city by freezing any building there. 

Back in the days of the Mandate there were those who, as the "spearhead", resisted this and found themselves not only struggling against Great Britain, the Nazis, Arabs and the rest of the world, but also found themselves struggling against their brothers here in Israel who felt that the British must be supported in their struggle against the Nazis. If it would not have been for the "so-called illegal immigration of the Mossad L'Aliya Bet", as it was called, it is certain that not only the thousands of refugees who came through the heroic efforts of this organization of immigration would have been murdered in Europe, but it is also clear that these same immigrants made an enormous contribution during the War of Independence. 

Today, as the pressures on Prime MInister Netanayahu grow from outside and from within, we must continue to
It depends on our tenacity and endurance to help the government of Israel do what needs to be done.
act as the "spearhead", the Mossad L'Aliya Bet of today. We must continue to give Mr. Netanyahu the example of our forefathers who were unafraid of the British, unafraid of the internal criticism and even hatred, and who realized that the safety and future of the Jewish people in our Land depended on their - and today - our efforts and determination to continue to build in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and all over our Land. It is imperative that each hilltop in danger of being handed over to an enemy who wishes to destroy us be protected and that we, as then, determinedly continue to demand that our Land and the Jewish people be granted the inalienable right that we have always had, no matter what any foreign or local power ruled.

Each and every hilltop, be it Gilad Farm in the Shomron or Shdema located only ten minutes from Jerusalem, demands the same determined fight to protect it and keep it for the Jewish people. 

Today, before the next attempt of the United Nations to freeze Jewish purchase of Land, and to prevent building and endanger our lives and the future of the Jewish people in our Land, it depends on our tenacity and endurance to help the government of Israel do what needs to be done: protect the Jewish people and ensure that never again will we be forced by a "White Paper" to endanger our very existence as a people