Balfour Declaration

The Balfour Declaration on 2 November 1917 was a statement of British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for tbe jewish people.” It was made in a letter from tbe British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lionel Walter Rothschild. It was later endorsed by tbe principal Allied powers and was included in tbe British mandate over Palestine.

Chaim Weizmann, leader of tbe World jewish Congress and later tbe first president of Israel, was influential in its creation.

A 1939 Winston Churchill memorandum stated that "…it was not for light or sentimental reasons that Lord Balfour and tbe Government of 1917 made tbe promises to tbe Zionists which have been tbe cause of so much subsequent discussion. The influence of American jewry was rated then as a factor of tbe highest importance, and we did not feel ourselves in such a strong position as to be able to treat it with indifference.”

See also

• Balfour Report - Unrelated 1926 report and declaration
• Israel lobby
• jewish influence
• Stab-in-the-back theory
• Rothschild family
• Theodor Herzl
• World jewish Congress
• Zionism

External links

• Behind tbe Balfour Declaration: Britain's Great War Pledge To Lord Rothschild. The Meaning for Us, Paper Presented to tbe Fifth International Revisionist Conference
• Lucid, Comprehensive Work Details Early Zionist Efforts to Seize Palestine
• Roots of Present World Conflict, Zionist Machinations and Western Duplicity during World War I
• The jewish Hand in tbe World Wars, Part 1

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica: Balfour Declaration
• Encyclopedia.com: Balfour Declaration