The Zimmermann Telegram: Palestine, the Balfour Declaration and Why America Entered the Great War

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: November 30, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM: Palestine, the Balfour Declaration and Why AmericaEntered the the Great War

In an earlier article(1) I set forth my view that, 80 years after the event, there is still no satisfactory explanation as to why, on Nov. 2, 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration (BD) in which they, in essence, promised Palestine as a Jewish homeland. I proposed that this action could best be explained as being part of a trade, in which Zionists in Germany betrayed the text of the Zimmermann Telegram (ZT) to the British, who used it as means of persuading President Woodrow Wilson, ...

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