What is the Balfour Declaration? | History of Israel Explained | Unpacked
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This week on History of Israel Explained, we’re dissecting one of the most famous documents in Israeli history - the Balfour Declaration - and asking what made this 117-word letter so important and so controversial.
The Declaration was written in 1917 by the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur James Balfour, and sent to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, one of Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizens. It expressed the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
So why did it take another 30 years, until the United Nations passed UN Resolution 181, for a Jewish state to finally be established? Why was the Balfour Declaration so controversial? Why was it written so ambiguously and did the British even have the right to promise the Jews a homeland in British Mandate Palestine?
Drop your reactions to this week’s topic in the comments below and, if you haven’t already done so, watch our video about UN Resolution 181 to understand the events of 1947.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:26 Balfour's letter to Rothschild, AKA The Balfour Declaration
01:19 International recognition of the Jewish right to the Land of Israel
01:54 Why establishing a Jewish nation-state was so important
03:04 What caused European powers to finally approve a Jewish homeland?
04:04 The integral role of Chaim Weizmann
06:03 The vague and ambiguous language in the document
08:07 The promise of Palestine to Arab leaders and the Sikes-Picot Agreement
09:00 Arab rejection of the Balfour Declaration
09:16 Increasing Arab and Jewish violence in Palestine
09:42 Contribution to ending the 2,000 year-old Jewish exile
10:08 Outro
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