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The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli... |
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of "a National Home for the Jewish people," and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day. Now the entire fascinating story of the document is revealed in this impressive work of modern history.
With new material retrieved from historical archives, Jonathan Schneer recounts in dramatic detail the public and private fight for a small strip of land in the Middle East, a battle that started when the Ottoman Empire took Germany's side in World War I. The key players in this conflict are rendered in nuanced and detailed relief: Sharif Hussein, the Arab leader who secretly sought British support; Chaim Weizmann, the Zionist "folks-mensch" who charmed British high society; T. E. Lawrence, the legendary British officer who "set the desert on fire" for the Arabs; and the other generals and prime ministers, soldiers and negotiators, who shed blood and cut deals to grab or give away the precious land.
A book crucial to understanding the Middle East as it is today, "The Balfour Declaration" is a riveting volume about the ancient faiths and timeless treacheries that continue to drive global events.
| Indice e argomenti trattati |
| Glossary of Names | | xiii | | | | xxv | | | Postlude as Prelude | | xxvii | | | | | Chapter 1 Palestine Before World War I |
| | 3 | | | Chapter 2 Ottomanism, Arabism, and Sharif Hussein |
| | 15 | | | Chapter 3 First Steps Toward the Arab Revolt |
| | 32 | | | | 49 | | | Chapter 5 The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence |
| | 64 | | | Chapter 6 The Sykes-Picot Agreement |
| | 75 | | | Chapter 7 The Arab Revolt Begins |
| | 87 | | | | | Chapter 8 Prewar British Jews |
| | 107 | | | Chapter 9 Weizmann's First Steps |
| | 124 | | | Chapter 10 The Assimilationists |
| | 138 | | | Chapter 11 The Road Forks |
| | 152 | | | PART III The Battle for the Ear of the Foreign Office |
| | | Chapter 12 Forging the British-Zionist Connection |
| | 165 | | | Chapter 13 Defining the British-Arab Connection |
| | 178 | | | Chapter 14 Managing the British-Zionist Connection |
| | 192 | | | Chapter 15 Sokolow in France and Italy |
| | 208 | | | Chapter 16 Revelation of the Sykes-Picot Agreement |
| | 220 | | | PART IV The Road Not Taken |
| | | Chapter 17 British Muslims, the Anglo-Ottoman Society, and the Disillusioning of Marmaduke Pickthall |
| | 239 | | | Chapter 18 The Curious Venture of J. R. Pilling |
| | 253 | | | Chapter 19 Henry Morgenthau and the Deceiving of Chaim Weizmann |
| | 263 | | | Chapter 20 "The Man Who Was Greenmantle" |
| | 275 | | | Chapter 21 The Zaharoff Gambit |
| | 289 | | | PART V Climax and Anticlimax |
| | | Chapter 22 The Ascendancy of Chaim Weizmann |
| | 303 | | | Chapter 23 Lawrence and the Arabs on the Verge |
| | 319 | | | Chapter 24 The Declaration at Last |
| | 333 | | | Chapter 25 The Declaration Endangered |
| | 347 | | | | | Chapter 26 A Drawing Together of Threads |
| | 365 | | | Acknowledgments | | 377 | | | Notes | | 379 | | | Bibliography | | 409 | | | Index | | 417 | |
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