It was not offered to Balfour; Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild indicating that the government “viewed with favor” the establishment of a jewish state in post-war Palestine. No one has ever unraveled the circumstances of this strange comminication. Normally it would have been sent to the president of the World Zionist Organization,so the fact that it was sent to Rothschild – a prominent member of a prominent banking concern – suggests that the issue of war loans was a factor,particularly since England was not winning their war at that juncture,U.S. forces having not yet been deployed. Essentially Rothschild appears to have bought Palestine for European jews experiencing nostalgia.
War effort to divide the Arab world forever. The British used the Jewish issue to do it. The British were not in love with Jews and the British history is full of anti Semitic stories.
The British didn’t offer Palestine to Lord Balfour. Balfour was the British Foreign Secretary. He issued a declaration saying “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”
The letter was sent to Lord Rothschild who at the time was a leader of the British Jewish community,
As Britain was losing the war American jewry made a deal to exchange a WW1 victory against Germany for the zionist occupation. It had huge ramifications in WW2 because of a minor corporal
basically the british wanted to win WW1 and so promised everyone in the area a homeland in order to enlist them against the turks, they even promised the same bit of land to more than one group and so intiated many of the problems which still exist in this area nearly 100 years later.
It has always been accepted that Rothschild got the letter of guarantee by offering low-interest war loans. Absolute proof is lacking but the family/bank had financed many wars and they usually expected something more than interest into the bargain.
During the first meeting between Weizmann and Balfour in 1906, Balfour asked what payment Weizmann would accept for use of his process and was told, “There is only one thing I want: A national home for my people.” Balfour asked Weizmann why Palestine — and Palestine alone — should be the Zionist homeland. “Anything else would be idolatry”, Weizmann protested, adding: “Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?” “But Dr. Weizmann”, Balfour retorted, “we have London”, to which Weizmann rejoined, “That is true, but we had Jerusalem when London was a marsh.”
It was not offered to Balfour; Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild indicating that the government “viewed with favor” the establishment of a jewish state in post-war Palestine. No one has ever unraveled the circumstances of this strange comminication. Normally it would have been sent to the president of the World Zionist Organization,so the fact that it was sent to Rothschild – a prominent member of a prominent banking concern – suggests that the issue of war loans was a factor,particularly since England was not winning their war at that juncture,U.S. forces having not yet been deployed. Essentially Rothschild appears to have bought Palestine for European jews experiencing nostalgia.
War effort to divide the Arab world forever. The British used the Jewish issue to do it. The British were not in love with Jews and the British history is full of anti Semitic stories.
The British didn’t offer Palestine to Lord Balfour. Balfour was the British Foreign Secretary. He issued a declaration saying “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”
The letter was sent to Lord Rothschild who at the time was a leader of the British Jewish community,
It was part of the war effort for fairly complex reasons,but it certainly had nothing to do with wanting to make the jews jump for joy.
As Britain was losing the war American jewry made a deal to exchange a WW1 victory against Germany for the zionist occupation. It had huge ramifications in WW2 because of a minor corporal
basically the british wanted to win WW1 and so promised everyone in the area a homeland in order to enlist them against the turks, they even promised the same bit of land to more than one group and so intiated many of the problems which still exist in this area nearly 100 years later.
It has always been accepted that Rothschild got the letter of guarantee by offering low-interest war loans. Absolute proof is lacking but the family/bank had financed many wars and they usually expected something more than interest into the bargain.
During the first meeting between Weizmann and Balfour in 1906, Balfour asked what payment Weizmann would accept for use of his process and was told, “There is only one thing I want: A national home for my people.” Balfour asked Weizmann why Palestine — and Palestine alone — should be the Zionist homeland. “Anything else would be idolatry”, Weizmann protested, adding: “Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?” “But Dr. Weizmann”, Balfour retorted, “we have London”, to which Weizmann rejoined, “That is true, but we had Jerusalem when London was a marsh.”