The Hidden History of the Balfour Declaration.Presents the author's views on what he believes to be the true story of how the British government came to issue what has come to be known as the Balfour Declaration. Information that the Balfour Declaration took the form of a letter, dated ...
The article presents information on the history of Israel. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 asserted the support of Great Britain for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It was only on May 14, 1948 that a state of Israel was proclaimed and created, but was accompanied by armed ...
The Hamas terrorist attack on Israel this weekend comes amid the backdrop of a longstanding history of conflict over land and independence that has plagued the region. The early 1900s: British promote Zionist movement for a 'national home' for Jewish populations The Balfour Dec...
Our Israeli collective memory highlights the fact that Britain did not want to see a state established for the Jews and showed this by its behavior in the post-World War II years. Beginning in this period and working its way backward to the Balfour Declaration in 1917, we have constructed a...
The rise of Zionism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a growing stream of Jewish immigration into Palestine. In 1917, during World War I, the British Government issued the Balfour Declaration which declared British support for the creation in Palestine of a “national home for the...
The Balfour Declaration, issued through the continued efforts ofChaim WeizmannandNahum Sokolow, Zionist leaders in London, fell short of the expectations of the Zionists, who had asked for the reconstitution of Palestine as “the” Jewish national home. The declaration specificallystipulatedthat “nothi...
Discontent in Palestine intensified after 1920, when the Conference of San Remo awarded the British government a mandate to control Palestine. With its formal approval by the League of Nations in 1922, this mandate incorporated the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which provided for both the establishmen...
We examine the emergence of Zionism as a factor in the political world. From the first years of the twentieth century we have unmasked the close relationship between Zionism and the British and French Rothschilds. The background to the Balfour Declaration shows how far the British cabinet was ...
Joseph Stalin: “Results of the First Five-year Plan” (1933) Reinhard Heydrich: Memorandum concerning Kristallnacht (1938) Unit 14: A Divided Postwar World Balfour Declaration (1917) United Nations Charter (1945) Winston Churchill: Iron Curtain Speech (1946) ...
Meanwhile, in the 1920s and 1930s, the Jewish population in Palestine increased by hundreds of thousands, facilitated by the British (who were honouring the Balfour Declaration). During this time, tensions between the growing Jewish communities and the Arabs were increasing. In 1936, the Palestini...