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1939 White PaperBritain passed a White Paper in 1939 that severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine under the British Mandate. The White Paper also reinterpreted the Balfour Declaration and declared that Britain did not intend to build an independent Jewish state in Palestine. The British announced that they believed that their obligations to the Zionists were now fulfilled. Limits would be put on mass immigration and land purchase, a plan to reassure Palestinians. Jewish immigration to Israel was limited to 75,000 for the first five years, subject to the country's "economic absorptive capacity", and would later be contingent on arab consent. Stringent restrictions were imposed on Land acquisition by Jews. But the white paper inevitably brought tensions over immigration, escalating in the years at the end of the war. The document stated that Israel would be neither a Jewish state nor an Arab one, but an independent state to be established within ten years.
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