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22 de may. de 2017 · May 22, 2017. Draft of The Balfour Declaration with handwritten notes, 1917 Courtesy of Martin Franklin. Upon first glance, the two pieces of paper, covered with scribbles and scant in text, look ...
A declaration by Britain in favour of a Jewish national home in Palestine. It took the form of a letter from Lord Balfour (British Foreign Secretary) to Lord Rothschild, a prominent Zionist, announcing the support of the British government for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine without prejudice to the civil ...
17 de oct. de 2017 · The Balfour declaration of 1917. Photograph: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty. Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, will hold a special session honouring Balfour, while British immigrants to the ...
The Balfour Declaration is important because it recognizes the historical. bond of the Jewish People to the Holy Land, a bond which existed long before. the declaration. What was significant was its public and formal recognition. and its incorporation into international law. In his testimony before the Peel.
Lord Balfour declaring the opening of Hebrew University, April 1, 1925. Chaim Weizmann sits behind him to the right. (Library of Congress)As we approach the hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 2017, we must remember the magnificent political victory of Dr. Chaim Weizmann who paved the way for Jewish resettlement of Land of Israel under a British protectorate and ...
The Balfour Declaration anticipated a world regulated by a consortium of principal powers—the same world that, 30 years later, would pass a UN resolution legitimating the establishment of a Jewish state….The poetic simplicity of the Balfour Declaration resides in its presumption that a home for the Jews in their land needs no justification.
It was. not a humanitarian gesture. Those British. statesmen most closely connected with the. Declaration were almost openly anti-semitic. Balfour himself, Foreign Minister in 1917, had been Prime Minister in 1905 when the. Government enacted the Aliens Act to prevent. the further immigration of Jews fleeing.
