The Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate, 1917–1923: British Imperialist Imperativesdoi:10.1080/13530194.2013.791133William M. MathewBritish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
The Balfour Declaration is a letter written in 1917 by British then Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, leader of the British Jewish community. The letter expressed Britain's support for Jewish people to establish a state in the Palestinian territories. During hi...
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SMYSER, KATHERINE A., M.A., June 2012, History To Serve the Interests of the Empire? British Experiences with Zionism, 1917-1925 Director of Thesis: John Brobst The Balfour Declaration of 1917 committed the British government to supporting the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, but ...
The problem is this notion of an exclusive homeland, which is what the British had proposed, the famous Balfour Declaration of 1917. It fits in with the pattern of British colonial rule everywhere, which is to divide people, to create animosity amongst different communities, and use that ...
We understand these events as part of the ongoing Nakba, beginning in 1948, but with a longer history. The Balfour Declaration in 1917, for example, saw the British pledge to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine and there was an exponential increase in the movement of Jewish people to those...
The first chapter provides an historical introduction and examines the sequence of events leading to the Balfour Declaration of November 1917. Thesubsequent chapters deal with British policies during the Military Administration, which lasted from 1917-1920, and then with the Civilian Administration up ...
(Sykes –Picot ) which provided to divide the Arab region into French and British spheres of influence, where Palestine according to this agreement was within the British sphere of influence, which made Britain in November 2nd 1917 to issue the Balfour declaration which gave the Jews the right ...
In 1924–1928, Balfour chaired the Committee on Industry and Trade to examine the UK’s economic decline since the First World War. See: Final Report of the Committee on Industry and Trade, Cmnd. 3282, 1929. 31. Balfour played a leading role in 1915 in establishing High Speed Steel Alloys...
Events leading to Canada's legal disassociation from imperial foreign policy began with Resolution IX of the Imperial War Conference of 1917. Although recognition of changes in the imperial relationship came with the Balfour Declaration of 1926, it was the appointment of the first British High ...