Tag: Balfour Declaration
Jabotinsky’s Role, and the Jewish Legion’s, in securing the Balfour Declaration
Martin Kramer has rightly attempted to resurrect Nahum Sokolow’s role in the Zionist diplomacy that led up to the Balfour Declaration. He demonstrates clearly the incremental progress of that diplomacy during World War I,...
The Forgotten Truth about the Balfour Declaration
On November 2, 1917, a century ago, Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary, conveyed the following pledge in a public letter to a prominent British Zionist, Lord Walter Rothschild:
His Majesty’s Government view with...