The Writer's Almanac from Thursday, November 2, 2017 “Peace” by C.K. Williams from Collected Poems. © Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 Today is the 100th anniversary of Britain’s Balfour Declaration, which proclaimed its support for a Jewish state in Palestine (1917). The declaration took the form of a brief letter from foreign secretary Lord Arthur Balfour to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, a prominent British Zionist. Balfour wrote a “declaration of sympathy” with the Zionist cause, adding: “His Majesty’s Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” The British government believed the cause was just; they also hoped to gain Jewish support for the Allies in World War I.
Fascinating reading - I appreciate this so much as a very good way to start my day. Thank you!
Thanks for the nod to George Boole. Would that we still had search engines which used Boolean logic!
Fascinating reading - I appreciate this so much as a very good way to start my day. Thank you!
Thanks for the nod to George Boole. Would that we still had search engines which used Boolean logic!