Balfour and Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Emergence of Israel
On November 2, 1917, Arthur Balfour, then Foreign Secretary, wrote to Lord Rothschild to say that the British Government viewed with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. The consequences of this statement have reverberated throughout the world in a crescendo of bitterness and violence ever since. It interposed a European (mainly Russian) Jewish cultural idea in an Arab land and it led eventually to the Arab-Israeli conflict.\ Eleven years before his...
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1. Jew and Arab\ 2. The Dream of Zion\ 3. Arthur Balfour\ 4. Chaim Weizmann\ 5. 'Uganda'\ 6. England\ 7. Palestine before the War\ 8. Messianic Times\ 9. Placating the French, Inciting the Arabs\ 10. First Steps to the Balfour Declaration\ 11. The Turning Point\ 12. It's a Boy!\ 13. At the Threshold\ 14 Epilogue
