THE MIDDLE EAST
revision
, CHAPTER 1:
The Great Powers in the
Middle East
, 1.
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1. THE JEWISH CLAIM TO PALESTINE
What was the Jewish claim to Palestine?
, JEWISH CLAIM TO PALESTINE 1.
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• Jews used to live in Palestine from about
1500BC
• Due to revolts and Romans destroying Jewish
temples, Jews became scattered. Those who BALFOUR DECLARATION
lived in diaspora became merchants and
farmers 1917
• Jews were persecuted (Anti-Semitism)and • Made in the form of a letter to Lord
segregated as almost all Europeans were Rothschild, British Jew, in Nov 1917
Christian
• Written by Lord Balfour – British foreign
• 19th century Russia had largest Jewish secretary
population – after assassination of tsar in 1881
there were anti-Jewish riots
Britain declared support for Jewish
• Russian Jews fled to western Europe and USA homeland in Palestine to encourage Jews
in America to influence gov. action, so that
• Jews wanted a national home. – ‘Next Year in USA joins the war
Jerusalem’ (‘Promised Land’ of the Israelites)
• By 1914 – number of Jews called Zionists British expressed support for Jewish
agreed for it to be in Palestine homeland, not state, but for 30 years Jews
regarded this declaration as a promise
• 1880 – 1914: 60,000 Jews settles in Palestine from British to help set up a state.
revision
, CHAPTER 1:
The Great Powers in the
Middle East
, 1.
1
1. THE JEWISH CLAIM TO PALESTINE
What was the Jewish claim to Palestine?
, JEWISH CLAIM TO PALESTINE 1.
1
• Jews used to live in Palestine from about
1500BC
• Due to revolts and Romans destroying Jewish
temples, Jews became scattered. Those who BALFOUR DECLARATION
lived in diaspora became merchants and
farmers 1917
• Jews were persecuted (Anti-Semitism)and • Made in the form of a letter to Lord
segregated as almost all Europeans were Rothschild, British Jew, in Nov 1917
Christian
• Written by Lord Balfour – British foreign
• 19th century Russia had largest Jewish secretary
population – after assassination of tsar in 1881
there were anti-Jewish riots
Britain declared support for Jewish
• Russian Jews fled to western Europe and USA homeland in Palestine to encourage Jews
in America to influence gov. action, so that
• Jews wanted a national home. – ‘Next Year in USA joins the war
Jerusalem’ (‘Promised Land’ of the Israelites)
• By 1914 – number of Jews called Zionists British expressed support for Jewish
agreed for it to be in Palestine homeland, not state, but for 30 years Jews
regarded this declaration as a promise
• 1880 – 1914: 60,000 Jews settles in Palestine from British to help set up a state.
