Goldberg 1990, p. 113 #2: "In contrast to this explanation, official British reports, which also underline that the riots were unexpected, tend to point to a variety of factors, without singling out a major cause or assigning responsibility. Such background factors are not difficult to locate. Economically, the province of Tripolitania was still struggling with the dislocations of war. Many people had come to the city from the countryside seeking employment, which was not to be found. Along with the economic stress was considerable political anomie. Tripolitania had been freed from Italian rule by the British, but its political future was uncertain. Promises of independence had been made to the neighboring province of Cyrenaica, where Sanusi forces actively had abetted the Allied effort, but no commitments had been made to Tripolitania. Various proposals about the political future had been offered, including return to colonial status under Italy and, later, a trusteeship under the Soviet Union." Goldberg, Harvey E. (1990), "The Anti-Jewish Riots of 1945: A Cultural Analysis", Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives, University of Chicago Press, ISBN978-0-226-30092-4
Goldberg 1990, p. 113 #1:"It is useful to start with a hypothesis widely held by Libyan Jews—that the riots were instigated by the British.. [who may have been] attempting to show that native Libyans were incapable of ruling themselves, or that they were seeking to warn Jewish activists in Palestine who were militantly opposed the British mandate there." Goldberg, Harvey E. (1990), "The Anti-Jewish Riots of 1945: A Cultural Analysis", Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives, University of Chicago Press, ISBN978-0-226-30092-4
The Libyan Arena, Scott L. Bills, p.175, "For a report from an American serviceman who blamed the riots on the "skilled hands of British engineers," see Sgt. Joseph Sweben, Tripoli, to Truman, 9 November I945, 865C.oo/II-945, RG 59, DSNA. The sergeant believed that British authorities could have stopped the rioting "in five minutes flat" if they had acted decisively. Instead, "Arabs ran wild through the streets of Tripoli on the evening of November 4th."
Goldberg 1990, p. 122: "A number of years, and additional political upheavals, were to pass before the State of Israel emerged as a reality, and not until Spring 1949 did the British administration give permission to the Jewish Agency to organize immigration to Israel. There is little doubt however that the riots, separated from the mass immigration by about four years, were a central factor in bringing it about. Although Jews probably would eventually have left an independent Libya, as they have the other countries of the Maghrib, under different circumstances the emigration might have been more gradual, as in the cases of Morocco or Tunisia. Goldberg, Harvey E. (1990), "The Anti-Jewish Riots of 1945: A Cultural Analysis", Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives, University of Chicago Press, ISBN978-0-226-30092-4
