%0 Journal Article
%T La dichiarazione Balfour alle origini dello stato di Israele e del moderno Medio Oriente
%J -
%D 2017
%R DOI Code: 10.1285/i22808949a6n2p373
%X November 2, 2017 marked the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, one of the most important political declarations of modern times: its reverberations continue to be felt to this days. While the World War I was raging and no one knew which side would win, the British government, led by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, released a declaration bearing the name of Arthur Balfour, the foreign secretary. The Balfour Declaration promised to support ˇ°the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,ˇ± so long as that did not ˇ°prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communitiesˇ± there. That short document (its crucial paragraph contains 67 words) laid the foundation of modern Israe
%K Balfour Declaration
%K Zionism
%K Great Britain
%K Foreign relations
%K ¨˘rab-Israeli conflict
%U http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/eunomia/article/view/18833