The Palestinians and British Perfidy: The Tragic Aftermath of the Balfour Declaration of 1917

by Richard Long

Book Overview

Ottoman Turkeys decision to ally with Germany in the First World War led directly to the British (and French) conquest of the Middle East and sealed the fate of Palestine. In a monstrous betrayal of its people, 93 percent of them Arab, the November 1917 Balfour Declaration withheld the independence they rightly anticipated and for strategic reasons earmarked Palestine as a National Home for the Jewish People. Ronald Storrs, a British Foreign and Colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845199723
• ISBN13: 9781845199722
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 312 Pages