It’s a boy”, Sir Mark Sykes, the government’s negotiator on the Middle East, told the Zionist leader, Chaim Weizmann, eventually to be the first president of Israel, on October 31, 1917. Two days ...

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Masri, billionaire founder of Palestine Telecom, holds the UK responsible for the 77-year-long Israeli occupation, demanding ...

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very fact of his being was of greatest value to us. In the history of Jewry his name will remain forever as that of a friend with heart and vision.” “Lord Balfour was a great and honorable statesman ...

Britain's Balfour Declaration turns 100 this week, hailed by Israel for helping lead to its founding, but viewed by Palestinians as contributing to a catastrophe that stole their land. The November 2, ...

One hundred years ago — on November 2, 1917 — the British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, issued a letter to the British Jewish leader, Lord Walter Rothschild, pledging British support for “a ...

In the eyes of the Palestinian Authority, one historical act is attributed with all future Palestinian suffering. That act is the Balfour Declaration, issued today, Nov. 2, in 1917. The declaration ...

Christians mourned the Earl of Balfour last week, but those who actually wept for him were Jews. Directly after the Earl of Balfour’s death the Council of the World Zionist Organization met in London ...