HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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the Balfour Declaration
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the Dreyfus Affair
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the Holocaust
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restrictions on Jewish immigration
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although the Balfour offer was applauded by the international Zionist movement, especially in Eastern Europe, it was opposed by a large segment of British Jews, including the only Jew in Lloyd George’s Cabinet, Edwin Montagu, a future secretary of state for India.
Detailed explanation-2: -The declaration specifically stipulated that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” The document, however, said nothing of the political or national rights of these communities and did not refer to them by name.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Balfour Declaration was the direct outcome of a sustained effort by the Zionist Organization to establish a Jewish State in Palestine.