Soon after the UN resolution, less than half a year prior to the expiration of the British Mandate, large-scale fighting broke out between the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine. By the time Israel declared its independence on 14 May 1948, the result of these five and a half months ...
That led to the Anglo-French Agreements of April-May 1916 or Sykes-Picot Agreement. Prior to occupation of Palestine by the British troops, on 2nd November 1917 the British Government released a message of support to the Zionist Movement in the form of a letter se...
In the Balfour Declaration of 1917, they promised Zionist leaders aid inthe establish- ment of a Jewish "national home" in Palestine, with due regard for the rights of non-Jewish Palestinians. The British also promised Arab leaders to support the creation of independent Arab states. The Arabs ...
“This secret arrangement conflicted in the first place with pledges already given by the British to the Hāshimite dynastḤusayn ibn ʿAlī, sharif of Mecca, who was about to bring the Arabs of the Hejaz into revolt against the Turks on the understanding that the Arabs would eventually ...
British politicians had promised Arabia to the Arabs in 1915; in 1916 they secretly agreed with France to carve up the Middle East between them after the war, and in 1917 Britain promised an undefined area of Palestine to the Jews. After Allenby’s forces had conquered the whole of Palestine...
It was shut down by Putin's regime prior to the war. After his arrest Orlov's computer was seized by cops, along with a "No to war" button. His "crime" was pub- lishing an article last November say- ing, "The bloody war launched by Putin in Ukraine is not only the mass ...
Defense of the Yishuv was left to Turkey's ally Germany and to the United States, which until 1917 remained neutral. Had it not been for the Germans and Americans, Jamal Pasha would have succeeded in destroying the Yishuv. The war in the Mediterranean cut the Yishuv o√ from Europe and ...
British mandate of Palestine, 1917–47 Zionism, Jewishnationalist movementwith the goal of the creation and support of a Jewish national state inPalestine, the ancient homeland of theJews(Hebrew: Eretz Yisraʾel, “the Land of Israel”). Though Zionism originated in eastern and centralEuropein...
Upon the outbreak ofWorld War I, political Zionism reasserted itself, and its leadership passed to Russian Jews living in England. Two such Zionists,Chaim WeizmannandNahum Sokolow, were instrumental in obtaining theBalfour Declarationfrom Great Britain (November 2, 1917), which promised British suppo...