Balfour Declaration
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- This was a letter sent from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour addressed to Baron Rothschild who was a leader of the British Jewish community. This was sent to be a transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
- This website answers the question "What is the Balfour Declaration?" It also includes information on liberal Britain's sympathy for Zionism, the declaration's controversies and contradictions, and demographics in Palestine before and after Balfour.
- This is what it said: “His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
- It was later used in the Sevres Peace Treaty with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
- This website includes information on the Balfour Declaration. This encompasses the background of the declaration, motivation for the declaration, Jewish national home vs. Jewish state, authorship, and reaction to the declaration.
- This website includes information about the receiver of the Balfour Declaration. It details his biography, zoological career, political career, and involvement with Zionism and the Balfour Declaration.