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1917 It all Officially started in 1917

1917 1917 November 2nd 1917 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 1917 2 1917 2

I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty s Government This act by British Government shows that Britain didn t think of the consequence of giving the land Additionally they thought that the people of the land Wii accept without a fight

There is two explanation to why the British created the Balfour Declaration The first explanation is The British wanted to reward the Zionist leader most active in lobbying for a declaration Chaim Weizmann because of his invention of a process for producing acetone which was used in the manufacture of explosives critical to the Allied war effort in World War I A second explanation is that the British desperately needed the United States to enter the war and some officials had an essentially anti Semitic view that American Jews had a great deal of influence with the government and would rally support for England They calculated that support for a Jewish home would make those Jews happy and encourage them to lobby the government to join the war against Germany and its allies Some also feared that Germany would act first and makes its own proZionist declaration

h Jewish t i w y h t pa n of sym o i t itted to a m r b a u l s c e n d e be owing ich has h w the foll s n o i t aspirat e Cabine Zionist h t y b oved and appr et s l e as at c one h ay t In em ys s h u t g give do you them g What givin took t e abou land w omans t that the ot from The British cabinet didn t think highly of the people of Palestine Thinking that they don t have sny rights to own their land Therefore Britain gave the Palestinian land away sympathy wi th Jewish Zionist peo ple They don t have a land to call their own

His Majesty s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people The UK had no right whatsoever to promise the Jews a national homeland in a country that did not belong to it but to the people who had been living there for dozens of centuries the Palestinian people

and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non Jewish communities in Palestine This promise was not kept by the United Kingdom and the Palestinian people were expelled from their country becoming refugees victims of the UK conspiracy with the Zionist movement

or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country Progressive Israeli governments and different organizations utilized and concocted all conceivable devices to seize Arab land and devote it to the Jewish colonial settlement extend in Palestine to change it into a Jewish state This included taking over the property which the Palestinian displaced people cleared out behind as well as the property of the Palestinians who remained to live beneath the control of the modern Jewish state but who were uprooted and considered absentees even in spite of the fact that they were present in expansion to open and state arrive and Islamic Waqf property

Before the British Mandate for Palestine after world war I jews made up three percent of the total population

The British Mandate facilitated Jewissh immigration from Europe to Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s By 1947 the Jewish population had increased tenfold to 33 of Palestine

On May 14 1948 The British Mandate expired Zionist military forces expelled at least 750 000 Palestinians from their homes and captured most of the country

During the June 1967 War Israel expanded into the West Bank including East Jerusalem occupying all of the historic Palestine

PLO Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yiitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo I Accord which was supposed to establish a framework

Palestinians were given certain powers of self rule but remained under the Israeil military occupation This made the Israeli occupation the longest in modern history

1917 2 Foreign Office November 2nd 1917 Dear Lord Rothschild I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty s Government the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to and approved by the Cabinet His Majesty s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation Yours sincerely Arthur James Balfour