“Our policy may fail; I do not deny that this is an adventure. Are we never to have adventures? Are we never to try new experiments?” Arthur Balfour said, in an address to the House of Lords, ...

In 1917, the Balfour Declaration became the seminal document that led eventually to the establishment of the State of Israel. On November 2, 1917, as World War I raged on, and months after various ...

The Balfour Declaration expresses the recognition by the international community of the inalienable rights of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland. The Palestinian leadership's denial of the ...

Palestinians mark the 103rd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration – a document that laid the groundwork for Israel's creation, amid a dwindling support for the Palestinian struggle against the ...

It has been 100 years since the Balfour Declaration – issued by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 – offered the first international recognition of Jewish national aspirations. In many ways, its ...

How often have we followed current events, only to discover that what seemed like a local concern has snowballed into an incomprehensible conflict with far-reaching consequences? Tensions in the ...

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The Forverts did not care much for the Balfour Declaration, the November 2 letter that pronounced British support for a Jewish home in Palestine, in the heat of World War One. Forverts editor Ab Cahan ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 2015, Tobias Ellwood, Britain's foreign and commonwealth affairs minister for the Middle East and Africa, said that ...

A mere sixty-seven words helped alter the course of history. A century years ago this past week, November 2, 1917, the Balfour Declaration was issued, declaring British support for the establishment ...