HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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It officially declared that the Germans had won the war and could decide the fate of the Jews.
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It officially passed over control of the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire to Great Britain.
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It confirmed that the United Kingdom supported a separate state for the Jewish population.
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It allowed France to officially maintain control over Iraq’s oil.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Balfour Declaration, which resulted in a significant upheaval in the lives of Palestinians, was issued on November 2, 1917. The declaration turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain publicly pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” there.
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: -Hence the most documented explanation for the declaration is that the British government hoped to persuade Jews in two wavering Allied countries, the United States and Russia, to insist that their Page 4 governments stay in the war until total victory.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Britain issues the Balfour Declaration. Causes: The Palestinians were at war with the Jews by taking their land. Effects: United Nations voted for a partition to make a Palestine/Jew state.
Detailed explanation-6: -Although the United States supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had assured the Arabs in 1945 that the United States would not intervene without consulting both the Jews and the Arabs in that region.