Nationalistic movements, sacramental confl icts, especially disputes with Catholics inspired Jews for an independent state. Since then, historical facts and developments did not grant Jews a chance for reestablishment of their historical kingdom/nation state in Palestine. Jews, the oldest monotheistic prayers left Palestine and spread all around the world with Babylonian Exile (BC 597-581) by Babylon King Nebuchadnezzar. Both, for their selfi sh interests preferred not to oppose Zionist plans.Īfter French Revolution (1789) nationalism and the process of building nation states achieved a worldwide impetus.
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The other signifi cant reality the archive documents brings out is that, Sheriff Hussein and his son Faisal who collaborating with British, betrayed Ottoman Empire and caused its defeat at Palestine-Hejaz Front also were very well aware what “national home” would mean after British occupation. The concept actually from the very beginning was targeting a Jewish State, both Lloyd George and Zionists were very well aware of that fact. The most considerable fi nding of the paper is that: the concept of “national home” which was put forward with an innocent/intentional editing is the basis of later developments. Basic problematic of this essay focused on the structural meaning and messages of the Balfour Declaration. To understand the logic and texting of the Declaration, British archive documents must carefully be examined and a new light should be shed on the aim of Lloyd George Government’s hidden objectives inserted and hided among complex cycle of facts while the text was being typed. Notwithstanding there is no any specifi c work inspecting the texting of Balfour Declaration. Even ordinary political history books tackle with the problem and give some information. Because the Palestine Question is a global problem and never lacks mass interest, there are a large English and Turkish literature on Balfour Declaration and Lloyd George Government’s support to Zionists.
Bearing this case in mind, in this paper the denotations “Zionism/Zionists” and “Jews” have selectively been used. Nevertheless at the beginning, Jews as a whole were not supporting Zionism.
Zionism, since the last decades of 19 th century, was/is a worldwide Jewish organization aimed to build a national home/Jewish Nation state in Palestine. Keywords: Palestine, Zionists, Britain, Ottomans, Arabs, Faisal Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of International Relations The Lloyd George Government of the UK: Balfour Declaration the Promise for a National Home to Jews (1916-1920)
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