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The report began by describing the history of the problem, including a detailed summary of the origins of the Balfour Declaration. Much of this summary relied on Lloyd-George's personal testimony; [324] Balfour had died in 1930 and Sykes in 1919. [325] He told the commission that the declaration was made "due to propagandist reasons ...
Dispossessed: The Ordeal of the Palestinians 1917–1980 is a history book about the Palestinians, beginning with the year of the Balfour Declaration. The book was written by the British historian David Gilmour and published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1980. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Balfour Declaration was seen by Jewish nationalists as the cornerstone of a future Jewish homeland on both sides of the Jordan River, but increased the concerns of the Arab population in the Palestine region. In 1917, the British succeeded in defeating the Ottoman Turkish forces and occupied the Palestine region.
The British government’s Balfour Declaration followed on 9 November 1917, formally declaring support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine in a letter ...
Immediately following their declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, the British War Cabinet began to consider the future of Palestine [1] (at the time, an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population). [2] [3] By late 1917, in the lead-up to the Balfour Declaration, the wider war had reached a stalemate
Balfour's service as foreign secretary was notable for the Balfour Mission, a crucial alliance-building visit to the US in April 1917, and the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a letter to Lord Rothschild affirming the government's support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire ...
The defacing was intended to symbolise the bloodshed of the Palestinian people since the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917, the group said. A Trinity College spokesman said: “Trinity ...
1918. Emir Faisal and Chaim Weizmann (left, also wearing Arab outfit). During the time of the Mandatory Palestine, the Balfour Declaration signed in 1917, stated that the government of Great Britain supported the establishment of a "Jewish national home" in Palestine.