Arthur Balfour Quotes
We should be able to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America where the majority of Jews ... appeared to be favorable towards Zionism.
The Balfour Declaration recognized Palestine as the legitimate national home for the Jewish people." 1st Earl of Balfour
Arthur Balfour, 1848-1930, , British Prime Minister (Conservative), Statement to the War Cabinet about some of the advantages that would emanate from the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, 1917
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This is the first statement of a Jewish nation since Biblical Times.
He also expressed his pleasure with the British Balfour Declaration granting the Jews their own country in part of Palestine ({594001}). Wilson had earlier committed himself to support the Zionist claim for Palestine. See {585124}.
Wilson did so later: {585123}. Wilson was not the only early American President who had “Zionist” aspirations for Palestine. See John Adams quotation: {585141}.
The recommendation for partition was the basis of the decision of the United Nations in 1949 to partition Palestine.
of the Jewish refugees from the German concentration camps
Mr. Brandeis was Louis D. Brandeis, first Jewish Supreme Court Justice and one of the leading Zionist world leaders. Theodor Herzel is generally credited with being the father of Zionism but his treatise was written in 1895. Four years earlier, Blackstone, a Methodist Evangelical Minister, had drafted what has come to be called the Blackstone Memorial, which was a petition to President Benjamin Harrison to have American foreign policy work to return the Jews to Palestine where they would have a state and government. The petition was signed by over 400 notables. Straus, Brandeis and other Jewish Zionists credited Blackstone even though history has almost forgotten him. See {614860} for quotes from the Blackstone Memorial.
The original Zionist conceptualization of Israel was as an agricultural state. Einstein thought this was unwise given Jewish accomplishment in science and trade. Blumenfield satisfied him that Israel would not be solely or even predominantly an agricultural nation, but it should be able to supply its own food needs,
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, DL was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He was a member of the Conservative Party. As Foreign Secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917 on behalf of the cabinet.
