The Balfour Declaration is one of the most important events in the history of the Jewish people and of the Middle East prior to the Holocaust, signaling the beginning of a new era of self-determination in the reconstituted Jewish homeland after nearly 2000 years of life in exile.
This book provides an all-inclusive understanding of the complex geopolitical elements that shaped the facts on the ground in the Middle East. Analyzing the chain of events that led to the Balfour Declaration through a uniquely holistic approach it demonstrates how the national interests of the nations involved in World War I theater intersected with those of the Jewish nation in the final phase of its long march towards political sovereignty.
Dr. Goldstein's groundbreaking PhD dissertation was published as a book under the same title by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Original letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, conveying The Balfour Declaration to Lord Lionel Rothschild, Head of the British Zionist Federation
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As outlined in the preface to my book, by methodically tracking the stages that transformed the Jewish ethos from the amorphous stage of social and political impotence in the oppressive world of the Diaspora to the politically dynamic pursuit of the return to sovereign nationhood in the ancestral homeland, I identified three major developments that fueled this arduous journey, which are mostly wanting in the existing literature. Without the development of these crucial independent variables, there would have been no political Jewish representation for the British government to engage with as part of its World War I strategy in the Middle East. There also would not have been a Balfour Declaration, and the state of Israel would never have come into being.
Without knowing and understanding the past, it is impossible to comprehend and deal with the present. This book makes a significant contribution to both these essential requirements. I believe that it belongs on the bookshelves of every institution of higher learning and that it will be welcomed by anyone interested in an unbiased account of the path that led to the situation in the Middle East today.
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