Tag: Balfour Declaration

Weizmann was a delegate to the Second Zionist Congress of 1898, together with Herzl.

November 2 is a black day in the local—albeit manufactured—ethos.

"The San Remo Conference is maybe the most unknown conference in Israel."

On November 2, 1917, the Balfour Declaration appeared on the world stage.

“His Majesty’s government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

The Balfour Declaration is the basis of the Palestinian claim to the Jewish homeland.

Orly Benny Davis talks about the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, as well as the options for peace in the region with Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the wider Middle East.

Palestine from 1917 to 1948, the history of the Balfour Declaration and its aftermath.

NILI was significant as the first intelligence agency of the Jews in the Land of Israel, and played a part with Balfour.

"We demand British Prime Minister May apologize to all Palestinians throughout the world."

The PM, his wife, and Minister Miri Regev later met with British Jewish community leaders, and recalled the 100th anniversary of the Balfour declaration

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and British Prime Minister Teresa May.

"We must be equally clear that there can never be any excuses for boycotts, divestment or sanctions: they are unacceptable."

"A hundred years after Balfour, the Palestinians should finally accept the Jewish national home and Jewish state."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening, following the special Knesset session in memory of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, will leave for London to attend an event marking 100 years...

Israel is commemorating the centennial of the Balfour Declaration on November 2 but few take note of the event that occurred two days earlier..

The document endorses 'Jewish Zionist aspirations' and a 'national home' for the Jewish people."

She supports BDS, although remains very careful as to the language she uses.

"If Zionism is a dirty word then Judaism must be likewise, because all of our Jewish sources, tradition and culture revolve around Israel, it is impossible to separate one from the other."

It's doubtful the Royals would set foot on Jerusalem's soil any time soon, especially not on the anniversary of their country's promise to establish a homeland for the Jews.

British PM Theresa May expressed unmitigated support for the Jewish State in her address at a CFI luncheon.

The historic partition vote that led to the rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel would have also created another Arab state.

The full text of the speech to the UN General Assembly by PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, delusions included.

By a strange quirk of history, Lord Balfour created both the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinian Authority leader has failed to govern his people to nationhood and now hopes to rip it by force from history 100 years old.

Rav Kook offered recognition to the British but not thanks; the British merely fulfilled its destiny

A brief history of Israel’s legal right to the land under international law.

Richard Allen of JCC Watch said, "There has been a pattern - first with [BDS activist] Roger Waters and now with Alice Walker. All of our efforts to speak with the 92nd Street Y administrators have been met with closed doors, closed ears and closed minds."

A portrait of Ze'ev Jabotinsky may still adorn Likud conventions in Israel, but the ideas of this great Zionist leader - who passed away 70 years ago this week - are essentially forgotten and/or ignored.

Galut Mentality"In every generation one is obligated to see himself as if he has exited Egypt." (Passover Haggadah)When the Jews left Egypt and were...