THE 1970S 1969 1979
CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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Zimmerman Note
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Balfour Declaration
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Sykes-Pico Agreement
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Huessian McMahon Letters
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Detailed explanation-1: -On November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour writes an important letter to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The letter would eventually become known as the Balfour Declaration.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is Arthur James Balfour’s message in his letter? The British government favors the creation of a Jewish homeland.