Balfour Declaration

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  10/13/2022
  

  The Women Who Secured the Balfour Declaration

  by Natalie Livingstone

  Women in the Rothschild family were instrumental in creating support among wealthy British Jews for Zionism, which they had previously rejected out of perceived self-interest and disdain for the Jewish masses.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7/27/2020
  

  Present Absences: A Century of Struggle in Palestine (Review)

  For Khalidi, the British mandate established two parallel realities in Palestine: an embryonic nation-building project for the Jewish minority and the continuation of colonial policy for the Arab majority, whose question of self-determination was left unaddressed.

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• SOURCE: Mosaic
  11-27-17
  

  Why the 1947 UN Partition Resolution Must Be Celebrated

  by Martin Kramer

  As compared with the festivities surrounding the Balfour Declaration centenary, little attention has been paid to the 70th anniversary of the UN vote. This is a missed opportunity.

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• SOURCE: Mosaic Magazine
  11-6-17
  

  Who Saved Israel in 1947?

  by Martin Kramer

  The usual answer is Truman—but it could just as easily be Stalin. In fact, thanks to Zionist diplomacy, it was both; and therein lies a lesson for the Jewish state today.

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  11-1-17
  

  Simon Schama shares a very personal account of the Balfour Declaration

  by Simon Schama

  “[A]s many Zionists have known and argued, the fulfilment of a national home will turn not just on power but on ethics, in which case the humanity of the other people of the land needs to be respected, too."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-2-17
  

  Balfour Declaration of Support for Jewish Homeland Still Divisive at 100

  The anniversary of the British document is greeted with tributes and demonstrations.

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• SOURCE: Mondoweiss
  9-26-17
  

  Balfour Declaration, now 100, was ‘gun pointed at heads’ of Palestinians says Rashid Khalidi

  "The issuance of the Balfour Declaration thus marked the beginning of what I would describe as a century long colonial war in Palestine supported by an array of outside powers which continues to this day."

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  3-13-17
  

  British Royal Family May Visit Israel to Mark Balfour Declaration Centenary

  Israeli President Reuven Rivlin reportedly extended the invitation at a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Jerusalem last week.

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• SOURCE: Tablet Magazine
  11-16-16
  

  Britain’s Parliament Debates the Balfour Declaration, Revealing Divides Over Israel in Contemporary Politics

  A discussion of the past serves as a proxy for political differences in the present.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  9-23-16
  

  Colonial Slow Genocide: Palestinian Leader Abbas asks Britain for “Balfour” Apology

  by Juan Cole

  Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, is asking Britain for an apology for its having in 1917 issued the infamous “Balfour Declaration.” He won’t get one.

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• 9-22-16
  

  Palestinians' Abbas seeks British apology for 1917 Jewish homeland declaration

  Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Abbas said that the Palestinian people had suffered greatly because of the Balfour Declaration in which Britain said it favored the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine but that this should not undermine the rights of others living there.