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
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
