After the conclusion of the First World War, a conference was convened at San Remo, taly, in 1920, which gave legitimacy to the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine under the protection of Britain. At the San Remo Conference, Britain and France divided the Tur…
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One hundred years ago the British Government issued a document which would change the face of Middle East politics for ever. On 2 November 1917 the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the Jewish community in Britain and annou…
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Sometimes we visualise history as it is presented in many textbooks: a single, straight timeline marked by various significant events. In reality, the course of human history more closely resembles raindrops on a windowpane: a complex web of individual streams attracting and reacting against each ot…
