02747nam a2200241   4500001000700000090001100007100004100018101000800059200010400067210003700171215002000208300006600228330186900294606003202163606003002195606004102225606001702266606001902283606005102302700002402353955001102377995011702388393572  a393572  a20151104d2006       y0pory50      ba  aeng  aIllegal immigration to Palestine 1945-1948bRecurso eletrónicoethe French connectionfAlan Swarc  aLondoncUniversity Colleged2006  a1 CD-ROMd12 cm  aThesis for a Higher Degree (PhD) of the University of London.  aThis thesis principally concerns the illegal immigration campaign launched by a secret organisation, the Mossad l'Aliyah Bet (The Mossad), to breach the British naval blockade of Palestine and thereby enable the entry of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. My primary objective is to prove that from late 1945 to April 1948 this campaign was largely facilitated by the covert help of elements within the French coalition Governments, without which it would not have succeeded. Crucially, France takes centre stage because this was the location, par excellence, chosen by theMossad from which to carry out its operational activities. Whilst the overall historiography of illegal immigration to Palestine is vast and has included many archival references to French involvement, this has not been clearly substantiated. On the basis of archive sources, some only recently made available, and despite the paucity of direct evidence of French complicity, I will illustrate that there is a wealth of documentation which, taken as a whole, provides compelling circumstantial evidence that this involvement was extensive. Furthermore, I will argue that French cooperation with Zionist leaders extended to political issues and military aid as well. Amongst other issues, I will focus on the rather free environment in France, in the post-war era, which proved to be so conducive to the operations of the Mossad. This includes considerations such as the political make-up of the French Government, the partisan approach of some of its ministers and civil servants, the Jewish community’s attitude towards Zionism and the work of intermediaries between certain Government ministers and the Mossad. I will also examine the effects of British diplomatic pressure on the French Ministries involved and the attempts of its Secret Service to prevent illegal ships leaving France.  aMIGRAÇÃO ILEGAL9100205  aSERVIÇO SECRETO9350277  aPOLÍTICA DE COOPERAÇÃO9273964  aTESE9334284  aISRAEL9333179  aTERRITÓRIOS AUTÓNOMOS DA PALESTINA9354044  aSWARCbAlan9357895  xOferta  104PJCD_270_00000000000000052022-06-066PJCD2709426029aPJcPJfPJ1CD270_8kPJCD270n2022-06-06o0rMOxOferta