Abstract
On 11 November 1918, Lieutenant Vladimir Jabotinsky wrote a reply to a letter he had received from Leo Amery, then political secretary to the War Cabinet, celebrating the end of the military campaign against the Turks. Jabotinsky opened his note with remarks concerning the Britishness of the victory in Palestine. The fact that the Legion had large numbers of ‘Americans’ was also credited to ‘British magnetism’, an assertion that does not take into account the independent actions of the Zionist Jews in the United States. This lack of understanding may have been due to his limited contact with the American volunteers, the early drafts of whom arrived in the 39th Battalion whilst he was at the front with the 38th. On the other hand it also demonstrates his pro-British attitude, especially as he appreciated that Britain, notwithstanding the vicissitudes caused by the local military, had, through the Balfour Declaration and victory, placed itself in a very strong and influential position regarding the future of the Jews in Palestine.
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