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The Balfour Declaration
It is no exaggeration that the history of Israel/Palestine for the last hundred years has turned on the seminal Balfour Declaration of November 1917. Loved and loathed in equal measure, this was the letter that changed the future. The following extract … Read more here ➔
Posted in Balfour Declaration, Historical, Key Documents
Tagged 1917, Balfour, Balfour Declaration, Christian Zionism, Palestine, Rothschild, Zionism
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“The Jewish Question” in 19th century Europe
By Ian Portman Abstract Faced with increasing antisemitism in Europe towards the end of the 19th century, many Jews chose to join the great waves of European emigration to the United States. Since the high middle ages, most of the … Read more here ➔
Posted in Balfour Declaration, Christian Zionism, Evangelicals and Christian Zionism, Pre-Balfour Declaration, Zionism Debate
Tagged 1915, 1917, 19th Century, anti-semitism, antisemitism, Balfour, Christian Zionism, Dreyfus, Evangelicals, First World War, Hechler, Herzl, Israel, Jew, Jewish, jewish question, Palestine, pogroms, restorationism, Rothschild, Shaftesbury, Zionism
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War cabinet minutes leading to the Balfour Declaration, 1917
On November 9th 1917 the Times published the minutes of the 4 War Cabinet meetings where, what became known as the Balfour Declaration, was discussed. They had before them the document produced by the Zionist Organisation on July 18th 1917 … Read more here ➔
Posted in Historical, Pre-Balfour Declaration
Tagged 1917, Balfour Declaration, Lloyd George, Lord Curzon, Lord Milner, Montagu, Palestine, Rothschild, War Cabinet Minutes, Zionist movement
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Evaluating the Balfour Declaration: Breaking the Deadlock in the Middle East
A one day conference exploring the different legacies of the Balfour Declaration and how a greater understanding of history can contribute to justice and peace in the Middle East today was held in Winchester University on May 18th 2013. Over … Read more here ➔
Posted in Balfour Declaration, Events, Past
Tagged anti-semitism, Balfour, Balfour Declaration, Christian Zionism, Curzon, Herzl, Lloyd George, Lord Curzon, Middle East, Rothschild, Sykes Picot
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Balfour and Palestine, a legacy of deceit, by Anthony Nutting
Anthony Nutting resigned from Anthony Eden’s givernment when he found Eden was going into Suez. Writing around 1975, he reflects on Doreen Ingram’s book “The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”. The papers in this book made clear that during … Read more here ➔
Posted in Pre-Balfour Declaration
Tagged 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922, Anthony Nutting, Balfour Declaration, Edwin Montagu, First World War, Lord Curzon, Middle East, Palestine, Rothschild, Sykes, Zionism
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Memorandum of Edwin Montagu on the Anti-Semitism of the Present (British) Government
Memorandum of Edwin Montagu on the Anti-Semitism of the Present (British) Government – Submitted to the British Cabinet, August, 1917 I have chosen the above title for this memorandum, not in any hostile sense, not by any means as quarrelling … Read more here ➔
Posted in Historical, Pre-Balfour Declaration
Tagged 1917, anti-semitism, assimilationist, Balfour, Jew, Jewish Legion, Montagu, Palestine, Rothschild, Russian Jews, Zionism
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Short biographies by Mary Grey
The War Cabinet (WW1) The creation of the War Cabinet undertook the supreme direction of the war effort. It was composed of David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law, Lord Nathaniel Curzon, Alfred Milner, Arthur Henderson and Sir … Read more here ➔
Posted in Biographies
Tagged 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, Allenby, Asquith, Balfour Declaration, British Mandate, Clayton, Curzon, First World War, Grey, Herbert, Hussein Ibn Ali, Lawrence, Lloyd George, McMahon, Milner, Montagu, Montifiore, Picot, Rothschild, Sacher, Samuel, Sokolow, Storrs, Sykes, Sykes Picot, Talaat Pasha, Weizmann, Wolf, Zaharoff
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The Balfour Declaration and its Consequences by Avi Shlaim
Occasionally there are topics that have been written about at such length that it helps to clear the air, or to establish the vantage point from which I intend to consider my subject. My aim therefore is to take a … Read more here ➔
Posted in Balfour Declaration, Current Positions, Post-Mandate Period, Pre-Balfour Declaration
Tagged 1917, Ba, Balfour Declaration, Herzl, Lloyd George, McMahon, McMahon Hussain, Middle East, Palestine, Picot, Rothschild, Samuel, Sykes, Sykes Picot, Zionism
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