The more decisive part of the Executive of the Jewish Agency – the Zionist Executive – was elected at a Congress that concluded its deliberations before the events of August 1929 in Palestine. These events as well as the subsequent proceedings of the Mandatory Power, have produced in the Zionist masses a new attitnde fundomontally different from that prevailing at the time of the Congress, so that the present Zionist Executive cannot, in these circumstances, serve as the valid expression of this changed attitude, says a resolution adopted by the Executive Committee of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists, after receiving a letter from the Zionist Executive declining to suspend the negotiations with the British Government until the forthcoming Zionist Congress.
For the overwhelming majority of the Zionist movement, the resolution proceeds, any understanding arrived at with the Government of the Mandatory Power on the basis of the White Paper of 1930 which has been described by the Government as remaining “the dominating document”, is unacceptable. The Seventeenth Zionist Congress which meets at the end of June 1931 is alone entitled to frame the policy and to determine the direction which the future political activity of the Zionist Organisation is to follow. The fur ther negotiations between the Government of the Mandatory Power and the Executive of the Jewish Agency in its present composition must therefore be regarded as inopportune, ineffective and to no purpose, until the meeting of the 17th. Zionist Congress.
In these circumstances, the resolution concludes, the Executive Committee of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists declares that the present negotiations and any consequent arrangements that may be arrived at will be regarded by it as neither binding nor obligatory on the Zionist Organisation, or the World Union of Zionist Revisionists which is one of its constituent parts.
The resolution, it is explained, has been communicated to all the parties concerned, including the British Government, which has acknowledged its receipt.
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