Who was behind the Balfour Declaration? - 0 views
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Ed Webb on 14 Jan 18Benjamin Disraeli was Prime Minister (and therefore a cabinet minister) in the second half of the 19th century, so Samuel was not the first.
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His niece, Blanche Dugdale, who worked in the London office of the Jewish Agency with Chaim Weizmann, indicated that Balfour was a Christian Zionist in her autobiography: “Balfour’s interest in the Jews and their history was lifelong, originating in the Old Testament training of his mother, and his Scottish upbringing.”
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others argue that Balfour was an anti-Semite and that his interests in the Zionist project were merely for British strategic gains
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