The British White Paper of May 1939 limited Jewish immigration into Palestine, contributing to the fate of European Jews in the Holocaust. Arab refusal to admit Jews magnified the number of Jewish deaths. After World War II, the Arabs adopted a similar model to the Nazis, seeking the destruction of the Jewish state. However, Israel was determined to defeat this attempted Holocaust. Unlike in the story of Purim and during the Holocaust, Jews are currently defending their homeland, the country promised to their forefathers.