Britain Palestine Israel – 70 years on

Balfour Declaration, Mandate Period, Past, Post-Mandate Period, Pre-Balfour Declaration

A  20-page booklet is now available containing the speeches at the conference of the Balfour Project in partnership with King’s College London (see below). The booklet also includes the Balfour Centenary Declaration, which has now been signed by 141 British public figures including 83 Members of the British Parliament. Below is a 20 minute YouTube…

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An interview between Mr Balfour and Justice Brandeis, Paris 1919

Balfour Declaration, Pre-Balfour Declaration, Zionism Debate

An Interview1 in Mr. Balfour’s Apartment, 23 Rue Nitot, Paris, on June 24th, 1919, at 4:45 p.m. Present: Mr. Balfour, Mr. Justice Brandeis, Lord Eustace Percy and Mr. Frankfurter 2 Mr. Balfour expressed great satisfaction that Justice Brandeis came to Europe3He said the Jewish problem (of which the Palestinian question is only a fragment but…

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Palestine and Britain 1917-1948: Competing Policies, Creative Commemoration

Balfour Declaration, Christian Zionism, Mandate Period, McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, Pre-Balfour Declaration, Zionism Debate

This talk was given at  the Balfour Project  conference in Southwark Cathedral  on 5th November 2016  entitled: ‘How will we mark the Centenary of the Balfour Declaration’ By Dr Peter Shambrook Context: it is only in the context of the development of the war that all the promises/agreements that the British government made can be…

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Rescuing Balfour: Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office 1921-22, By William Mathew

Balfour Declaration, McMahon-Hussein Correspondence

                    Given the sheer improbability of the Balfour Declaration, its source in temporary war-time contingencies, its activation of inter-communal conflict in Palestine, and its exposure to increasing opposition both at home and in the Levant, the 1917 War Cabinet pledge to Zionism was in manifest danger of collapse in the early 1920s in advance of…

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Britain’s Secret Reassessment of the Balfour Declaration. The Perfidy of Albion, by John Quigley

Balfour Declaration, Mandate Period

John Quigley President’s Club Professor in Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America From the Journal of the History of International Law Revue d’histoire du droit international Volume 13, Number 2, 2011 Reproduced here by kind permission of the author and  Koninklijke Brill NV,  the publishers The…

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