Regulations under the White Paper policy instituted…

Regulations under the White Paper policy instituted in February 1940 partition Palestine into three zones:

Area A (the Judean and Samarian hills, the Western Galilee, and the Northern Negev), where sales of land to Jews are banned altogether;

Area B (Jezreel Valley, the Eastern Galilee, and most of coastal plain), where sales might continue with approval of the British High Commissioner; and

Area C (the coastal strip, from Zikhron Ya'akov to a point north of Rehovot, plus the urban areas—corresponding roughly with the Peel Commission partition boundaries), where no restrictions are in effect.

Zionist leaders, in their dealings with Arab leaders, emphasize that their goals are peaceful and no threat to Palestinian Arabs.

They have for many years, however, discussed with British individuals and among themselves the possibility of deporting Arabs from Palestine.

Joseph Weitz, an official of the Yishuv, responsible for Jewish colonization, in 1940 notes in his diary:

"Between Ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country.... We shall not achieve our goal of being an independent people with the Arabs in this small Country.
The only solution is a Palestine, at least Western Palestine (west of the Jordan river without Arabs.
And there is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries, to transfer all of them; not one village, not one tribe, should be left."