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Balfour declaration
Balfour declaration The name given to Britain's pledge to support the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. It was contained in a letter of 2 November 1917 from Arthur Balfour to the leading British Zionist, Lord Rothschild. The letter pledged that such a home should be established ‘without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish people [Arabs]’ in Palestine. This statement represented a fundamental contradiction in British policy because at the same time, Britain had pledged to recognize the leaders of the Arab Revolt as rulers of Palestine. Nevertheless, the Balfour Declaration was confirmed by the Allies, and became the basis of Britain's Mandate for Palestine, granted by the League of Nations in 1920. Subsequent attempts to reconcile the Balfour Declaration with pledges to the Arabs were at the root of Britain's future problems in Palestine.
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JAN PALMOWSKI. "Balfour declaration." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAN PALMOWSKI. "Balfour declaration." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-Balfourdeclaration.html JAN PALMOWSKI. "Balfour declaration." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-Balfourdeclaration.html |
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Balfour declaration
Balfour declaration. Partly with a view to securing the support of world Jewry for the allied war effort, Lloyd George's government authorized Foreign Secretary A. J. Balfour to send a letter (2 November 1917) to Lord Rothschild (lay leader of Anglo-Jewry) pledging the support of the British government for the establishment, in Palestine, of a ‘National Home’ for the Jewish people, but safeguarding the rights of Palestine's non-Jewish inhabitants. The terms of this declaration were incorporated into the mandate for Palestine granted to Britain by the League of Nations, on the basis of which considerable Jewish settlement there was permitted between the two world wars. Growing Arab resentment and violence led to the abrogation of the declaration by Neville Chamberlain's government in 1939.
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JOHN CANNON. "Balfour declaration." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Balfour declaration." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-Balfourdeclaration.html JOHN CANNON. "Balfour declaration." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-Balfourdeclaration.html |
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Balfour Declaration
Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917) A declaration by Britain in favour of a Jewish national home in Palestine. It took the form of a letter from Lord BALFOUR (British Foreign Secretary) to Lord Rothschild, a prominent ZIONIST, announcing the support of the British government for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish peoples of Palestine or the rights and political status of Jews in other countries. The Declaration subsequently formed the basis of the mandate given to Britain for Palestine and of British policy in that country until 1947.
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"Balfour Declaration." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Balfour Declaration." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-BalfourDeclaration.html "Balfour Declaration." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-BalfourDeclaration.html |
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Balfour declaration
Balfour declaration Partly with a view tosecuring the support of world Jewry forthe allied war effort, Lloyd George's government authorized Foreign Secretary A. J. Balfour to send a letter (2 November 1917) to Lord Rothschild (lay leader of Anglo‐Jewry) pledging the support of the British government for the establishment in Palestine of a ‘National Home’ for the Jewish people, but safeguarding the rights of Palestine's non‐Jewish inhabitants. Growing Arab resentment and violence led to the abrogation of the declaration by Neville Chamberlain's government in 1939.
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JOHN CANNON. "Balfour declaration." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Balfour declaration." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-Balfourdeclaration.html JOHN CANNON. "Balfour declaration." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-Balfourdeclaration.html |
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Balfour Declaration
Balfour Declaration. British declaration of sympathy with Zionism. It was made in a letter of 2 Nov. 1917, from the British Foreign Secretary (i.e. Balfour) to Lord Rothschild. The declaration was endorsed in 1920 by the allies at the San Remo Conference. It was, however, in apparent conflict with the McMahon correspondence, which made commitments to the Arabs.
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JOHN BOWKER. "Balfour Declaration." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Balfour Declaration." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-BalfourDeclaration.html JOHN BOWKER. "Balfour Declaration." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-BalfourDeclaration.html |
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"Balfour Declaration." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Balfour Declaration." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-BalfourDeclaration.html "Balfour Declaration." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-BalfourDeclaration.html |
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