When the Peel Commission made its 1937 recommendations about partition and population transfer for Palestine, Magnes sounded the alarm: With the permission of the Arabs we will be able to receive hundreds of thousands of persecuted Jews in Arab lands [...] Without the permission of the Arabs even the four hundred thousand that now are in Palestine will remain in danger, in spite of the temporary protection of British bayonets. With partition a new Balkan is made [.. "New York Times", July 18, 1937.