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	PlanetPapers - Arthur James Balfour and the Balfour Declaration
		The declaration was issued on November 2nd, 1917 on behalf of the British government announcing its support in the formation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
		Balfour intended to convince the Arabs that their rights would not be affected, thus the reason for the second clause os the declaration.
		Even though Balfour's contribution to the formation of the state of Israel in 1948 was centred on his famous Balfour Declaration, the statement implied many things towards the situation between the native Arabs and the Jews.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/3633.php (1083 words)

	Balfour Declaration, 1917 at AllExperts
		The Balfour Declaration was a letter dated November 2, 1917, from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, to Lord Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, a private Zionist organization.
		Perhaps the Balfour Declaration can best be appreciated as part of the increasing escalation, both military and political, between the Allies and Central Powers over the course of late-1916 and 1917.
		Finally, the messages within the Balfour Declaration could not help but sow seeds of doubts within the minds of those ruling the Central Powers as to where the loyalty of their own domestic Jewish populations lay.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/ba/balfour_declaration,_1917.htm (2140 words)

	Balfour Declaration of 1917 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Language from the Declaration was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine.
		Perhaps the Balfour Declaration can best be appreciated as part of the increasing escalation, both military and political, between the Allies and Central Powers over the course of late-1916 and 1917.
		Finally, the messages within the Balfour Declaration could not help but sow seeds of doubt within the minds of those ruling the Central Powers as to where the loyalty of their own domestic Jewish populations lay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balfour_Declaration,_1917 (2116 words)

	Middle East History - Arthur James Balfour and the Balfour Declaration
		Balfour intended to convince the Arabs that their rights would not be affected, thus the reason for the second clause os the declaration.
		The third clause of Balfour's Declaration is an acknowledgment of assimilated Jews for it says that their 'rights and political status' should not be prejudiced by the declaration.
		Even though Balfour's contribution to the formation of the state of Israel in 1948 was centred on his famous Balfour Declaration, the statement implied many things towards the situation between the native Arabs and the Jews.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=23412 (1367 words)

	Balfour Declaration: 1917
		It was thought that the declaration should contain two principles, (1) the recognition of Palestine as the national home of the Jewish people, (2) the recognition of the Zionist Organization."2 With this new insight, Sokolow revised the draft3 and sent it on to Lord Rothschild.
		In their possession they had Balfour's declaration and two others: a revised text of the Milner-Amery draft declaration6, and the Curzon memorandum.
		After Balfour addressed two issues laid out by Curzon, concerning the inadequacy of Palestine as a home for the Jewish people or any other people, and the potential difficulty between the Jews and other people groups living in Palestine, a vote was taken and Balfour's revised draft was passed.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/MiddleEast/Balfour.html (794 words)

	Balfour Declaration - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Balfour Declaration, letter prepared in March 1916 and issued in November 1917, during World War I, by the British statesman Arthur James Balfour,...
		Israel, role of the Balfour Declaration in establishment
		The two greatest achievements of Zionism in this century are the commitment made by the British government in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the...
	encarta.msn.com /Balfour_Declaration.html (209 words)

	The Avalon Project : Balfour Declaration November 2, 1917
		The Avalon Project : Balfour Declaration November 2, 1917
		I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
		I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/mideast/balfour.htm (59 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Chronicles \| A Balfour curse
		The name is synonymous with the declaration that helped create the state of Israel and with it the untold agony and suffering of a people who to this day -- more than 50 years on -- have yet to recover from one of history's worst political and moral injustices.
		It is well-known that Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Office secretary during World War I, issued the notorious declaration on 2 November 1917 in which the British government pledged to assist in the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine.
		The invitation was extended to Balfour by one of the founders of the Zionist state, Chaim Weizmann, who hoped to take advantage of the occasion to promote the Jewish national homeland and who had invited for the same purpose a large number of prominent political figures.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/505/chrncls.htm (2509 words)

	::The Balfour Declaration of 1917::
		The Balfour Declaration was made in November 1917.
		The Balfour Declaration led the Jewish community in Britain and America into believing that Great Britain would support the creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East.
		Balfour declared his support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the area known as Palestine — though there had to be safeguards for the "rights of non-Jewish communities in Palestine".
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /balfour_declaration_of_1917.htm (343 words)

	Balfour Agreement
		Overview of the Balfour Declaration: The Balfour Declaration, a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild in which the British made public their support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, was a product of years of careful negotiation.
		Though the Balfour Declaration went through several drafts, the final version was issued on November 2, 1917, in a letter from Balfour to Lord Rothschild, president of the British Zionist Federation.
		This declaration was accepted by the League of Nations on July 24, 1922 and embodied in the mandate that gave Great Britain temporary administrative control of Palestine.
	www.invitation.to /dance/israel-balfouragreement.htm (706 words)

	MidEast Web - Documents and History - Balfour Declaration
		Another hypothesis, is that the declaration was intended to curry favor with the Jews, so that the Jews in the United States and Russia would influence their governments to support the British cause in the war.
		However, the declaration did not fall as a bolt from the blue, but was rather the culmination of a long tradition in Britain that supported restoration of the Jews to their own land for philosophical, religious and imperialistic motives.
		Thus, the existence of the Sykes Picot Agreement as a tentative draft treaty was known during the negotiations for the Balfour declaration, and the later publication of its content did not shock the ZIonist movement.
	www.mideastweb.org /peacechild/mebalfour.htm (3506 words)

	The Balfour Declaration & the Treaty of Versailles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Balfour Declaration & the Treaty of Versailles
		Statement issued by the British government in 1917, which is often seen upon as the initiation of the process that led to the establishment of the State of Israel.
		The declaration was drafted with the help of US President, Woodrow Wilson, who was a strong supporter of Zionism.
	www.red-ice.net /winterwonderland/balfourversailles.html (475 words)

	The Balfour Declaration & the Treaty of Versailles
		The Balfour Declaration & the Treaty of Versailles
		Statement issued by the British government in 1917, which is often seen upon as the initiation of the process that led to the establishment of the State of Israel.
		The declaration was drafted with the help of US President, Woodrow Wilson, who was a strong supporter of Zionism.
	www.redicecreations.com /winterwonderland/balfourversailles.html (475 words)

	The Balfour Declaration
		)The Balfour Declaration was basically about the British even though they did sign an agreement saying that they would support the Zionist movement, but this document seemed to come with stipulations, disappointments, and they tried to get their way by any means necessary.
		The Balfour Declaration was important, because with it, it caused a series of events that were very important in the lives of many Jews.
		The Balfour Declaration was just one form or way, they used to gain support or control that was ultimately going to benefit them more then anyone else.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/MidEast/04/shembo/shembo.htm (1180 words)

	The Balfour Declaration and the Zimmermann Note
		The first is a statement to Parliament in 1922 by Winston Churchill, then colonial secretary, that it should not be thought that, in the Balfour Declaration, Britain gave something to the Jews for which she received nothing in return.
		A possibility that should be considered is that Britain issued the Balfour Declaration in exchange, not for something she hoped would happen in the future, but for something that had already happened in the past.
		What I suggest is that the Balfour Declaration was a reward to the Zionists for their part in having brought the United States into the First World War at Britain’s side.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/0897/9708018.html (2868 words)

	Jew Watch - References - The Balfour Declaration
		At the core of the Declaration was the unusual relationship between the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour and an active Zionist scientist named Chaim Weizmann, who later became the president of the World Zionist Organization and the first president of the revived state of Israel.
		Balfour, on the other hand (as we noted before), was a devout Christian, and had been exposed to the Premillennial and Dispensational teaching that had been rediscovered in the Scriptures during the previous century.
		Although Balfour accomplished many significant achievements in the British government, it is reported that, in his final days, he felt the most important thing he had accomplished in his life was the Declaration encouraging the resettlement of the Jewish people in their homeland.
	jewwatch.com /jew-references-balfour.html (19075 words)

	Balfour Declaration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name Balfour Declaration is applied to two key British government policy statements associated with Conservative statesman Arthur Balfour.
		The first and most known, is the Balfour Declaration, of 1917: An official letter from the British Foreign Office headed by Arthur Balfour, the UK's official Foreign Secretary (from December 1916 to October 1919), to Lord Rothschild, who had once been a member of the British Parliament (from 1899 to 1910).
		The second, lesser-known, Balfour Declaration, of 1926, recognised the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire as fully autonomous states.
	balfour-declaration.iqnaut.net (144 words)

	Balfour Declaration - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917) A declaration by Britain in favour of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
		The Declaration subsequently formed the basis of the mandate given to Britain for Palestine and of British policy in that country until 1947.
		Early Balfour Declaration Draft Goes on the Block at Sotheby's.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O48-BalfourDeclaration.html (405 words)

	Britain Issues the Balfour Declaration
		It was 78 years ago, on Nov. 2, 1917, that Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, a fateful statement that Zionists henceforth claimed gave Jews a legal right to a homeland in Palestine.
		The declaration spoke of a homeland, but that was widely understood to mean a Jewish state.
		Balfour had been prime minister in the early 1900s at the time of the British offer of "Uganda" as a Jewish homeland and, although not Jewish, he considered himself a Zionist.
	www.wrmea.com /backissues/1095/9510081.htm (1465 words)

	Balfour Declaration
		In 1920, the Balfour Declaration was included in the San Remo Agreement of 1920.
		From July 24, 1922, the declaration was included into the mandate from which Britain temporarily administered Palestine.
		However, with the White Paper of 1939, the Zionist-friendly attitude of the Balfour Declaration was suspended.
	i-cias.com /e.o/balfour_d.htm (265 words)

	Middle East - Background Documents - Balfour Declaration
		In 1906 his employer introduced him to Lord Balfour, who was anxious to convince Weizmann that the Zionist movement should accept Uganda, rather than Palestine, as a national home.
		As the proposal took shape and began to be known, it invited intense opposition from a small group of rich and influential assimilated Jews, who felt threatened by the possible implications of double loyalty.
		By the time of the declaration, there had been a considerable history of Zionist settlement in Palestine under the Ottoman Turkish Empire, but the Jews were still only a small minority.
	www.ariga.com /peacewatch/balfour_declaration.htm (696 words)

	The Balfour Declaration and WWI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Balfour Declaration, named after the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, was a declaration of support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
		One version of the Balfour Declaration story is that the idea of such a declaration -- which hinged on the U.S. becoming involved in World War I to aid the British -- came solely from Jews as a plan to get the British to surrender Palestine to the Jews.
		Another version of the Balfour story is that the declaration idea came largely from British gentiles who recognized the fact that they could use powerful Jewish influence to get America into WWI, and that Jews happily played along with that idea since they thought that a Jewish homeland would result from their efforts.
	wsi.matriots.com /balfour.html (352 words)

	Start of: Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Balfour declaration stated no prejudice to civil and religious rights of Palestinians or rights and political status of Jews in any other country, 905
		Balfour declaration does not mean imposing Jewish nationality upon inhabitants of Palestine, 906
		Balfour declaration does not mean Palestine converted into Jewish National Home, but such a home be founded in Palestine, 906
	www.palestine-encyclopedia.com /EPP/SubjectIndex_5of10.htm (1895 words)

	Zionist Century \| Concepts \| British Rule
		Most historians concur that the British declaration was aimed at furthering British military and strategic interests in the area and, in particular, at extrapolating herself from the Sykes-Picot agreement.
		Notwithstanding the issuance of the Balfour Declaration in November 1917, the British continued to apply Ottoman law in Palestine.
		The Arabs rejected the Balfour Declaration and demanded the prohibition of Jewish immigration and on land purchases by the Jews.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/CONCEPTS/british.html (2484 words)

	Middle East Documents Balfour Declaration
		One possibility is that the declaration was deliberately contrived to allow the British to renege on earlier promises to France and the Arabs regarding Palestine.
		However, it is likely that even if the Balfour declaration had not contained that wording, the League Mandate would had added some clause to protect the rights of existing minorities because the purpose of mandates under the League Charter was after all to prepare existing inhabitants for self determination.
		It was not until 1942, in the Biltmore Program that the Zionist movement clearly declared their express intention of forming a Jewish state in Palestine, with or without British agreement.
	www.mideastweb.org /mebalfour.htm (3829 words)

	Robert John, Behind the Balfour Declaration
		Malcolm's belief in the Balfour Declaration as a means of bringing the United States into the war was confirmed by Samuel Landman, secretary to the Zionist leaders Weizmann and Sokolow, and later secretary of the World Zionist Organization.
		LONDON (January 12) - Leopold Amery, the author of the Balfour Declaration - the 1917 document from British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild which laid the groundwork for the establishment of the State of Israel - was a secret Jew.
		Balfour was to say later that he looked upon it as the greatest achievement of his life; Viscount Robert Cecil, one of the founders of the League of Nations considered the Jewish homeland to be of equal importance with the League itself.
	users.cyberone.com.au /myers/balfour.html (13985 words)

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