MY SAY: THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BALFOUR DECLARATION

Posted By on November 2nd, 2013

 

Happy Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration….although it is to be noted that there was always a Jewish presence in Palestine as Joan Peters wrote :

 

 From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestineby Joan Peters …..rsk

On November 2nd, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour replied to a letter from Lord Rothschild, the head of the Zionist Federation in Great Britain dated July 18th. The letter included the final text of the Balfour Declaration, a document expressing British support for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

 

“Foreign Office

 

November 2nd, 1917

 

Dear Lord Rothschild,

 

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:

 

His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

 

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

 

Yours,

 

Arthur James Balfour

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