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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Balfour Declaration The original letter from Balfour to Rothschild; the declaration reads: 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, it being ...
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.
Various factors increased Arab fears after World War I. [citation needed] Among these were the creation of Palestine in 1918 and the Balfour Declaration. The British also granted Zionist requests that Hebrew become a language with an equal status to Arab in official proclamations, that Jewish government employees earn more than Arab and that ...
The Constitution: It stated that with over 450,000 Jews having now settled in the mandate, the Balfour Declaration about "a national home for the Jewish people" had been met, and it also called for an independent Palestine to be established within 10 years and to be governed jointly by Arabs and Jews:
Arthur Balfour, Earl of Balfour The declaration accepted the growing political and diplomatic independence of the Dominions in the years after World War I. It also recommended that the governors-general , the representatives of the King in each dominion, should no longer also serve automatically as the representative of the British government ...
Arthur Balfour acted as British Foreign Secretary during the summer of 1922 as the official Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, was ill. The Balfour Note of 1 August 1922, signed by Britain's acting Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, was sent to Britain's debtors: France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Romania, Portugal and Greece.
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 ...
Although the commission was sympathetic toward Zionism, [22] the Balfour Declaration's requirement that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights existing in non-Jewish communities in Palestine" led the commission to recommend "that only a greatly reduced Zionist program be attempted by the Peace Conference, and ...