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The Balfour Declaration

(November 2, 1917)

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Pre-State Israel (Palestine/Eretz Israel)

Reference

“All of Palestine is Holy Muslim Waqf Land”: A Myth and its Roots

The Cairo Conference

Historical Sites in Central Palestine

“The Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain, Excerpts

Jewish Claim to the Land of Israel

Origins of the Name “Palestine”

Origins of Palestinian Arabs

Pre-State Israel Polls

The Tobiansky Affair

Turks Surrender Jerusalem to the British

Footage of General Allenby Entering Jerusalem. December 11, 1917.

International Relations

League of Nations

Truman Administration

Arab-Jewish Relations

The Arab Revolt

The Forgotten Tiberias Pogrom of 1938

Arab Riots of the 1920s

The Arabic Name of the Jewish State

Arabs in Palestine

Assassination of of Count Bernadotte

Assassination of Hayim Arlosoroff

Hadassah Convoy Massacre

Hebron Massacre

The Palestine Arab Congress

Pre-State Peace Efforts

War of Israeli Independence

Ottoman & British Rule

Atlit Prison Break

The British Mandate

During World War I

Jewish Immigration to Palestine

The Mahane Yehuda Police Station

Nebi Samwil Photos

The Safed City Police Station

Special Session of GA on Palestine

Under Ottoman Rule

U.S., Polish and Swedish Consulates Bombed Over Partition

When Churchill Severed Transjordan From Palestine

Primary Source Documents

Eleanor Roosevelt: My Round-the-World Adventures

CIA Report on Possible Developments in Palestine Following Partition Vote

Statement by UK Foreign Secretary Bevin

U.S. Proposes Temporary Trusteeship

CIA Report on the Consequences of Partition

CIA Report on Palestine Before Partition

CIA Report on Situation in the Mediterranean and the Near East

Martin Buber's Open Letter to Gandhi

Robert Kennedy's Reports from Palestine

Roosevelt-King Saud Correspondence

OSS on Arab Opposition of U.S. Support of Zionists

Speech: The Jewish Homeland and the Palestine Mandate

Convention Between the U.S. and Great Britain Regarding Palestine

Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence

The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence

Zionist Organization Statement on Palestine

Important Figures

Ruth Aliav (Kluger)

David Ben-Gurion

Winston Churchill

Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky

Walter Rothschild

High Commissioners for Palestine

Committees & Conferences

The Sykes-Picot Agreement

The Balfour Declaration

King-Crane Commission

San Remo Conference

Jewish National Home Determined by San Remo Conference

Minutes of Palestine Meeting of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers

The Shaw Commission

The Peel Commission

The St. James Conference

The Biltmore Conference

The Anglo-American Committee

Building a Jewish Army

The Altalena Affair

Evolution of Jewish Defense in Palestine

Jewish Brigade Group

Jewish Defense Organizations

LoHamei Herut Israel

The Jewish Legion

Palestinian Jewish Parachutists

Hebrew-Language Clandestine Radio

The Zion Mule Corps of Gallipoli

Zionism

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Ahdut Ha-Avodah

Congress of Berlin

Jewish Colonial Trust

Jewish Settlements

The Labor Battalion

Palestine Office

Stockade and Watchtower

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Table of Contents|Sykes-Picot Agreement|British Mandate

Reference

British Government Anti-Semitism
Declaration Text
History of the Balfour Declaration
The Jew Who Drafted the Balfour Declaration

Official Endorsements

Arab Leader Emir Faisal (1919)
U.S. Congress (1922)
U.S. President Hoover (1932)
U.S. President Roosevelt (1937)

Important Figures

Arthur Balfour
Benjamin Disraeli
Herbert Louis Samuel
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

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