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 :::::::My thoughts behind the ""An apparent intention ..."" wording was basically not to limit the reference to potential local hostility to the Jewish people.  The period of history concerned comes not long after the time of the Jerusalemite Haj Amin al-Husseini and the Waffen-SS.  Motivations may IMO have included genocide or a forced return of Jewish people to a whipping boy status which may have fitted in with local prejudices and idealised stereotypes.  Who knows, some may also have had a partial motivation to thwart any British based proposal.  Ours is not to reason why but I think it relevant here to leave things open to permit any number of unsavourary motivations to have been involved with some but potentially not all of the local peoples.   "