Palestine: The Reality - J.M.N. Jeffries

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 is a document that profoundly affected the Middle East. Palestine: The Reality is an expertly researched inside story of the Declaration. It is also a vivid and personal account based on familiarity with the dramatis personae as much as the relevant documents. J.M.N. Jeffries exposes: The real authors and progenitors of the Balfour Declaration, as well as Arthur J. Balfour himself, their personal stories, motives, confusions, conspiracies, and political aims; The broken promises to and agreements with Britain's Arab allies that enabled the Declaration to become a lasting pledge to the Zionists and a fundamental and enduring strut of British foreign policy in the Near East, dispossessing the Palestinian Arabs of their homeland and replacing them with 'a national home for the Jewish people,' mainly Jewish immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe; Britain's and France's manipulation of the nascent League of Nations and their awards to themselves, in effect, of the mandates for Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, respectively; The British, French, Jewish (Zionist and anti-Zionist), Arab, American, and other international players who joined either to create or to oppose the 'Balfour' document; the Zionists' and their supporters' use of often cynical and illegal methods; and all their individual idiosyncrasies, wiles and weaknesses. One of Jeffries's most startling revelations is that Britain ruled Palestine illegally, under civilian rather than militar
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