The Balfour Declaration : : the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Palestine before World War I -- Ottomanism, Arabism, and Sharif Hussein -- First steps toward the Arab revolt -- The next steps -- The Hussein-McMahon correspondence -- The Sykes-Picot agreement -- The Arab revolt begins -- Prewar British Jews -- Weizmann's first steps -- The assimilationists -- The road forks -- Forging the British-Zionist connection -- Defining the British-Arab connection -- Managing the British-Zionist connection -- Sokolow in France and Italy -- Revelation of the Sykes-Picot agreement -- British Muslims, the Anglo-Ottoman society, and the disillusioning of Marmaduke Pickthall -- The curious venture of J.R. Pilling -- Henry Morgenthau and the deceiving of Chaim Weizmann -- "The man who was Greenmantle" -- The Zaharoff gambit -- The ascendency of Chaim Weizmann -- Lawrence and the Arabs on the verge -- The declaration at last -- The declaration endangered -- A drawing together of threads.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xxix, 432 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781400065325
1400065321
SUBJECTS
Balfour Declaration.
Zionism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Zionism -- History -- 20th century.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Turkey.
Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.