Decision on Palestine deferred: America, Britain and wartime diplomacy 1939-1945

A diplomatic history of the Allied response to the Holocaust and to Zionist efforts to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Arguing that the two phenomena were intimately connected, Penkower condemns British and American inaction on both situations, suggesting that opposition to the active settlement of European Jewish refugees in Palestine contributed both to the tragedy of the Holocaust and to current tensions in the Middle East