02653nam 2200565 450 991082767320332120200520144314.01-282-87544-297866128754411-4411-6469-3(CKB)2670000000055593(EBL)601836(OCoLC)676698429(SSID)ssj0000412460(PQKBManifestationID)12172788(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412460(PQKBWorkID)10367471(PQKB)11171215(MiAaPQ)EBC601836(MiAaPQ)EBC5309559(Au-PeEL)EBL5309559(CaPaEBR)ebr11518527(OCoLC)1027206808(EXLCZ)99267000000005559320180315h20092009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBalfour and Weizmann the Zionist, the zealot and the emergence of Israel /Geoffrey LewisLondon, [England] ;New York, New York :Continuum,2009.©20091 online resource (222 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84725-040-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Maps and Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Jew and Arab; 2 The Dream of Zion; 3 Arthur Balfour; 4 Chaim Weizmann; 5 'Uganda'; 6 England; 7 Palestine before the War; 8 Messianic Times; 9 Placating the French, inciting the Arabs; 10 First Steps to the Balfour Declaration; 11 The Turning Point; 12 It's a Boy!; 13 At the Threshold; 14 Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; IndexOn November 2nd 1917 Arthur Balfour, then Foreign Secretary, wrote to Lord Rothschild to say that the British Government viewed with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. It was a statement the consequences of which have reverberated throughout the world in a crescendo of bitterness and violence ever since. It interposed a European (mainly Russian) Jewish cultural idea in an Arab land and it led eventually to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Eleven years before his declaration, Balfour had met the passionate Zionist and émigré chemist Chaim Weizmann while elPalestineHistory1917-1948Great BritainForeign relationsPalestine956.9404Lewis Geoffrey1929-1683223MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827673203321Balfour and Weizmann4053874UNINA