The British announced the White Paper policy in the hope to regain Arab support; this policy would limit the Jewish immigration, they also promised Arab Independence in ten years. The Arabs were content with this policy however the Zionists saw this as a betrayal of the Belfour declaration and were not pleased, the 1939 White Paper was the end of the British-Zionist alliance. After the Second World War the hostilities between the Arabs and the Jews escalated over the fate of Palestine with regards