The Balfour Declaration, 1917
•Agreement by the British to set up a Jewish homeland in Palestine
•The Br. Mandate there remained under Br. Control
•The British had also promised the Arabs independence in the region
•1918=60,000 Jews; 1939=630,000
•Beginning of the Arab-Israeli conflict
•*Sidenote* Turkey defeats Greece in 1920 in a war over Anatolia and a massive citizen shift occurs (1.5 mil)
•The Br. Mandate there remained under Br. Control
•The British had also promised the Arabs independence in the region
•1918=60,000 Jews; 1939=630,000
•Beginning of the Arab-Israeli conflict
•*Sidenote* Turkey defeats Greece in 1920 in a war over Anatolia and a massive citizen shift occurs (1.5 mil)
summery
Was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
question
What would have happend in the middle east without the Balfour Declaration?