Balfour Declaration - Wikipedia
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
Balfour Declaration | Palestine, Rothschild, History, Significance ...
2024年11月21日 · Balfour Declaration is a statement made on November 2, 1917, of British support for ‘the establishment in Palestine of a national home for Jewish people.’ It was made in a letter from the British foreign secretary to a leader of the Anglo-Jewish community and was later included in the British mandate over Palestine.
Balfour Declaration: Text of the Declaration - Jewish Virtual Library
The British government decided to endorse the establishment of a Jewish home in Palestine. After discussions within the cabinet and consultations with Jewish leaders, the decision was made public in a letter from British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour to …
More than a century on: The Balfour Declaration explained
2018年11月2日 · The Balfour Declaration (“Balfour’s promise” in Arabic) was a public pledge by Britain in 1917 declaring its aim to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration - HISTORY
2017年12月14日 · The Balfour Declaration was a letter written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lionel Walter Rothschild, in which he expressed the British government’s support for a Jewish...
How the 1917 Balfour Declaration caused the modern Israel-Palestine …
The Balfour Declaration, as it came to be known, promised the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, sparking a wave of hope among Jews worldwide. However, this promise also sowed the seeds of conflict and division, as the aspirations of the Arab inhabitants of the region were seemingly overlooked.
The Balfour Declaration This letter to Lord Rothschild, by the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, was aimed at Jewish support for the Allies in the First World War. The letter, known as the "Balfour Declaration" became the basis movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine. The letter was published a week later in The Times
The Balfour Declaration
2020年8月6日 · The following extract of the Balfour Declaration from the ‘Companion Guide’ to the Balfour Project film, ‘Britain in Palestine, 1917-1948’ highlights the pivotal event. Concise, but thoroughly documented, the article explains its origins, and why members of the War Cabinet were predominantly disposed to make a commitment to a ‘Jewish ...
Balfour Declaration letter written | November 2, 1917 - HISTORY
2009年11月16日 · On November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour writes an important letter to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British...
BBC News | KEY DOCUMENTS | The Balfour Declaration
2001年11月29日 · The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the first significant declaration by a world power in favour of a Jewish "national home" in what was known as Palestine. Historians disagree as to what the...