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Devilry in the Holy Land
Arnold Leese was vehemently critical of the Balfour Declaration and Zionism. He claimed that Palestinian Arabs had been promised an independent country and were mislead by the British government.
16 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1938
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June 12, 2025
Britain's Betrayal & Backstabbing
This is a brilliant little pamphlet published in the late 1930s during the height of the 1936-1939 Arab Rebellion against the British Mandate government in Palestine.
In it, British fascist Arnold Leese analyzes with remarkable clarity the unjust policy of Britain's force of arms being used to violently suppress the Palestinian Arabs expressing their indignation against the Mandate's semi-official support of Zionist maneuvering, tactics which were aimed at their dispossession resulting from the continued deluge of Jewish immigration and refusal to establish representative democracy until Arabs were made an impotent minority in their own homeland. This was made doubly vile by the British Empire repudiating written promises made to the Arabs (the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence of 1915 which predated the infamous Balfour Declaration by two years) of liberating Arabian territories including Palestine in exchange for allying with them against the fearsome Turkish Ottoman Empire in the Great War.
While his unpacking of sinister Zionist intrigues are brilliant, Leese's pamphlet suffers from only one topic that hindsight has proved him incorrect on, and that was his speculation that Palestine was home to potentially billions in mineral wealth due to supposedly huge stores of potash. This rankled him as an old school imperialist who sought to establish commercially fruitful ties with Palestine as a province under British supervision until eventual independence would be granted.
Other than that minor caveat, Devilry in the Holy Land is an essential and quick read.
This is a brilliant little pamphlet published in the late 1930s during the height of the 1936-1939 Arab Rebellion against the British Mandate government in Palestine.
In it, British fascist Arnold Leese analyzes with remarkable clarity the unjust policy of Britain's force of arms being used to violently suppress the Palestinian Arabs expressing their indignation against the Mandate's semi-official support of Zionist maneuvering, tactics which were aimed at their dispossession resulting from the continued deluge of Jewish immigration and refusal to establish representative democracy until Arabs were made an impotent minority in their own homeland. This was made doubly vile by the British Empire repudiating written promises made to the Arabs (the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence of 1915 which predated the infamous Balfour Declaration by two years) of liberating Arabian territories including Palestine in exchange for allying with them against the fearsome Turkish Ottoman Empire in the Great War.
While his unpacking of sinister Zionist intrigues are brilliant, Leese's pamphlet suffers from only one topic that hindsight has proved him incorrect on, and that was his speculation that Palestine was home to potentially billions in mineral wealth due to supposedly huge stores of potash. This rankled him as an old school imperialist who sought to establish commercially fruitful ties with Palestine as a province under British supervision until eventual independence would be granted.
Other than that minor caveat, Devilry in the Holy Land is an essential and quick read.
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