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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 ...
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (/ ˈ b æ l f ər,-f ɔːr /; [1] 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905.
BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. League of Nations – Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan Memorandum British Command Paper 1785, December 1922, containing the Mandate for Palestine and the Transjordan memorandum Whilst the Mandate for Palestine document covered both Mandatory Palestine (from 1920) and the Emirate of Transjordan ...
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 ...
A pro-Palestinian activist slashed a painting of the early 20th-century British foreign minister Arthur Balfour at Cambridge University on Friday, saying his 1917 declaration was the reason the ...
November 2 - Balfour Declaration: British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour sends a letter to Lord Rothschild, President of the Zionist Federation, declaring his government would "view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people".
Edwin Montagu, Arthur Balfour and Robert Cecil also joined the new Committee. [2] After failed attempts to create a separate overarching Middle East Department, the Cabinet merged the Middle East Committee with the Foreign Office Russia Committee and the interdepartmental Persia Committee, to become the Eastern Committee. [2] [3]