The+Balfour+Declaration+(November+2,+1917)


 * British policy was influenced greatly by news media, encouraging British Parliament to encourage the idea of a Jewish home in Palestine. In the hope of getting total support from the Jews.


 * The Jews were believed as playing an important role in the war effort for the allies. And with the support from both France and Axis power Germany, Britain was highly pressured for supporting of a Jewish home in Palestine.


 * After discussions on the cabinet level and consultation with Jewish leaders, the decision was made known in the form of a letter by Lord Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild.

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 * The letter was very vague and used confusing language to fluster Rothschild and the Jewish people into believing the British were totally in favor of the Jewish land in Palestine. However the British only published a letter to Lord Rothschild because of the pressure to do so by France and Axis Germany.

Laqueur, Walter, and Barry Rubin, eds. The Israel-Arab Reader. New York: Penguin, 2001. **__