Today in History - Balfour Declaration Signed - 2 Nov 1917
Nov 2, 2017 21:36:17 GMT
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The Balfour Declaration was a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It read:
His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, [highlight]it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine[/highlight], or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
The text of the letter was published in the press one week later, on 9 November 1917. The "Balfour Declaration" was later incorporated into both the Sèvres peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire, and the Mandate for Palestine. The original document is kept at the British Library.
The Sharif of Mecca Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi and other Arab leaders considered the Declaration a violation of previous agreements made in the McMahon-Hussein correspondence. The issuance of the Declaration had many long lasting consequences, and was a key moment in the lead-up to the Arab–Israeli conflict, often referred to as the world's "most intractable conflict"... More
The Sharif of Mecca Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi and other Arab leaders considered the Declaration a violation of previous agreements made in the McMahon-Hussein correspondence. The issuance of the Declaration had many long lasting consequences, and was a key moment in the lead-up to the Arab–Israeli conflict, often referred to as the world's "most intractable conflict"... More
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This 'agreement' lead to the Jewish media in America and the British government prodding the U.S. government to enter World War I, to which the US citizenry was adamantly opposed, with the 'Jewish people' the benefactors by receiving Palestine, at that time governed by the British Empire, as a homeland.
The Zionists in Germany went to the British War Cabinet, "Look here, you can win this war if the United States will come in as your ally, the price you must pay us is Palestine after you have won the war and defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey." They made that promise in October of 1916. Now that is something that the people in the United States have never been told, they never knew, why we went into World War I. After we got into the war, the Zionists went to Great Britain and they said, "Let's have something in writing that shows that you are going to keep your bargain and give us Palestine after you win the war", and that was called the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration was merely Great Britain's promise to pay the Zionists what they had agreed upon as a consideration for getting the United States into the war. That is where all the trouble started.
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Portrait of Lord Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office: 11 July 1902 – 5 December 1905, with his famous Balfour Declaration.
