Conner VanDevelde's List: Balfour Declaration Tipping Point

Introduction

May 14, 11

Introduction Title - The Power Behind the Zionist Movement

 Nearly eighty years have passed and the aftermath has still not settled from Lord Arthur Balfour's Declaration made in 1917. Simply stating that the Jewish people were to receive a homeland in the state of Palestine, the Balfour Declaration has been the source of many modern day conflicts between the Jewish and Arab societies. The current conflict over ownership to Palestinian land has escalated to such a degree that wars have came and gone with no concrete solution to whom should righteously control the land. Today, the Jews and Arabs are searching for a solution for all the conflict that was caused by the British Balfour Declaration.
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May 14, 11
Conner's Knowledge - Event

Balfour Declaration - Declaration made in 1917 by Great Britian declaring the state of Palestine as the homeland for the Jewish people.

Originally intended to keep the Russians in WWI and try to reel the Americans into the war as well.

Russians: Have many highly ranked Jewish officials and the Balfour Declaration greatly swayed many of them to do their best to keep Russia in the war

Americans: US has a high concnetration and population of Jews and with the 1918 elections right around the corner, the current president Woodrow Wilson saw the Balfour Declaration as an opportunity to gain support from the Jewish voters

The power behind the Zionist movement came from Balfour Declaration (Zionists didn't have much power behind their journey to Palestine until GB declared the Balfour Declaration)

Balfour Declaration is considered the authority behind the Jews migration and many consider it the source of the Arab-Isreali conflicts.
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May 14, 11

www.mideastweb.org/...balfour_declaration.htm
- The Balfour Declaration was a letter from Lord Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary to Lord Rothschild, head of the British Zionist movement, sent November 2, 1917.
  
  Ami Isseroff, “Balfour Declaration.” MidEastWeb
  August, 2008. Internet. May 15, 2011. http://www.mideastweb.org/Middle-East-Encyclopedia/balfour_declaration.htm
  
  On November 2, 1917, the head of the British Zionist movement, Lord Rothchild, received a letter recognized as the Balfour Declaration from Lord Arthur Balfour.
- ann had met Arthur Balfour and impressed him with the idea of a Jewish national home. Weizmann's ideas were also brought to the attention of Lloyd George and Herbert Samuel by C.P. Scott, the influential liberal and pro-Zionist editor of the Manchester Guardian. Lloyd George had become Prime Minister and Arthur James Balfour had become Foreign Secretary of Great Britain
  
  When the idea was presented about a Jewish homeland, Baflour and George were not powerful politicians and they grew to the idea before gaining power in British government.
  
  Weismann was the the wise man behind the plan who originally brought the idea to Arthur Balfour and Lloyd George
- not possible to objectively single out "a reason" for the granting of the Balfour Declaration
  
  Many were baffled by the Balfour Declaration as though there were many arguments put forth, there was no one decisive reason.
- Lord Balfour was an ardent Zionist
  
  With much doubt about a true reason for the Balfour Declaration, the picture become a slightly clearer with the revelation that the man responsible for the deal, Lord Balfour, was a Zionist.
- To guard the Suez Canal
  
  Another reason why they choose Palestine as a homeland for the Jews was in order to have a country near to the Suez Canal
- 1) Instead of granting Palestine as a national home for the Jews, the Balfour Declaration in its final form granted a national home in Palestine. This was later used as a rationale for removing Transjordan, 78% of the League Mandate, from the mandate territory, and establishing a separate Arab state.
  
  Instead of fully kicking the Arabs out of Palestine, the British hoped that the Jews would integrate into the system... that obviously didn't work out
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Middle East Conflict

May 08, 11
Middle East Conflict: Almanac (Event)

Pendergast, Tom, Sara Pendergast, and Ralph Zerbonia. Middle East Conflict Almanac. Detroit: U·X·L, 2006. Print.

Page 88

Ottoman Empire didn't intervene with countries in Middle East regions as long as those countries paid their taxes

Ruling families were in control at the time until WWI came along

Long before the war was over, Great Britain and France were preparing for the defeat of the Ottoman Empire

They both wanted access to the Middle East before it was all said and done

Ironically, the two power didn't work together as they disagreed on many policies and the later outcome was the moment when they decided to put aside their differences and work together

Chaim Weizmann - spokesman for Zionism who was the diplomat that convinced the British government that if they would give the Jews a homeland in Palestin, Russia would stay in the war

Balfour Declaration - used to secure the interests of the Jewish society by providing a haven from the past years of anti-Semitism (88)
Middle East Conflict

May 08, 11
Middle East Conflict: Biography (Event)

Pendergast, Tom, Sara Pendergast, and Ralph Zerbonia. Middle East Conflict Biography. Detroit: U·X·L, 2006. Print.

After the announcement of the Balfour Declaration, Ben Gurion called on all Jewish people to help free Palestine from Ottoman rule

The British mandate on Palestine had been formated to suit the Balfour Declaration as it too had a section devoted to a future Jewish national homeland

1920 - League of nations declared Palestine as the national homeland for the Jewish people

This transition would not happen quickly or easily: took 30 more years till Israel was established

Problems - Zionist movement declared for total control over the region and Arabs were going to fight over land (65)
Middle East Conflict

May 17, 11
Middle East Conflict: Primary Resources (Event)

Citation: Pendergast, Tom, Sara Pendergast, and Ralph Zerbonia. Middle East Conflict Primary Reasources. Detroit: U·X·L, 2006. Print.

Theodor Hertzl began the Zionistic movement with the book The Jewish State

Support for the Zionist movement first came through the form of a letter - Balfour Delcaration

Balfour Declaration lead to many conflicts between the Jewish and Arab people
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May 16, 11
Conner's Knowledge - Significance

The significance of the Balfour Declaration relies in the implementing of power

Implementing of power = Zionist movement gain an entire nation with support from other powers

Therefore tipping point as it allowed the Jews to move

Jews would have never had the authority to demand the land of Palestine without help from the British

Arabs would have refused them before they even would've had time to settle

1st domino of the reaction

Though Hertzl set the domino's into place, the Balfour Declaration was the first to push it over

If it put the Jews there, it's then responsible for all the damage

A Jewish homeland has been achieved in the form of Israel

In the process of getting a Jewish nation, many conflicts have arosen

Conflicts include all the wars fought between Jewish and Arab nations
Middle Eastern Confl

May 17, 11
Middle Eastern Conflicts: Almanac (Significance)

Pendergast, Tom, Sara Pendergast, and Ralph Zerbonia. Middle East Conflict Almanac. Detroit: U·X·L, 2006. Print.

Page 89

STATEMENT WAS ARGUAMBLY THE SINGLE MOST INFLUENTIAL DOCUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

British now put them selves in a position where they would later have to try to create an independant Jewish state in Palestine, an impossible task

In later years, the Balfour Declaration caused many Jewish and Arab populations to fight between themselves and later with the British (89)
Conclusion

May 14, 11

Conclusion

 With the Zionist movement not having much to support from the outside powers, the Balfour Declaration was the first document from the world power of Great Britain to officially declare Palestine as the homeland for the Jewish. The final affects of the Balfour Declaration are still far from over as there is no lasting resolution to who is the rightful landowner of the state of Palestine. What started out as a ploy to hook the Russians and Americans into the war, the Balfour Declaration ended up to be the reason why the Jewish people are able to have the state of Israel, but also a motive and explanation to the many conflicts fought between the Jewish and Arab societies.
Middle Eastern Confl

May 17, 11
Middle Eastern Conflicts: Biographies (Significance)

Pendergast, Tom, Sara Pendergast, and Ralph Zerbonia. Middle East Conflict Biography. Detroit: U·X·L, 2006. Print.

Pages 130 - 131, 266

British promised a lot during WWI; specifically they promised both Arab states in the Middle East and also a Jewish homeland in Palestine ~ contradictory promises leads to conflict

Al-Husayni: Arab leader who felt that the Arabs should resist the Zionist movement

1920's = he lead many demonstrations against the British people's promises

One of the demonstrations got violent and the view of Husayni changed forever (Arabs= leader against Jews/ Jews= enemy who wanted to take away their homeland) (130-131)

Maintaining the duel commitments in one area is impossible

Pendergast, Tom, Sara Pendergast, and Ralph Zerbonia. Middle East Conflict Almanac. Detroit: U·X·L, 2006. Print.

Pendergast, Tom, Sara Pendergast, and Ralph Zerbonia. Middle East Conflict Almanac. Detroit: U·X·L, 2006. Print.

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