Refugees Human Rights and Realpolitik

<p>This book presents a multidimensional case study of international human rights in the immediate post-Second World War period and the way in which complex refugee problems created by the war were often in direct competition with strategic interests and national sovereignty.</p><p></p><p>The case study is the clandestine immigration of Jewish refugees from Italy to Palestine in 1945–1948 which was part of a British–Zionist conflict over Palestine involving strategic and humanitarian attitudes. The result was a clear subjection of human rights considerations to strategic and political interests.</p>