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• Title:The Balfour Declaration : the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
  
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• Author/Creator:Schneer, Jonathan.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS125.5 .S366 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Subject(s):Balfour Declaration.
  
• Edition:Random House trade pbk. ed.
  
• Description:xxix, 432 pages, [8] pages of plates ; 21 cm.
  
• Summary:The Balfour Declaration paints an indelible picture of how Arab nationalists, backed by Britain, fought for their future as Zionists in England battled diplomatically for influence. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to either side or even to most members of the British government, Prime Minister David Lloyd George was telling Turkey that she could keep her flag flying over the disputed territory if only she would agree to a separate peace.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-416) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780812976038
  0812976037
  
• Contents:Postlude as prelude
  Palestine before World War I
  "Ottomanism," "Arabism" and Sharif Hussein
  First steps towards the Arab revolt
  The next steps
  The Hussein-McMahon correspondence
  The Sykes-Picot agreement
  The Arab revolt begins
  Prewar British Jews
  Weizmann's first steps
  The assimilationists
  The road forks
  Forging the British-Zionist connection
  Defining the British-Arab connection
  Managing the British-Zionist connection
  Sokolow in France and Italy
  Revelation of the Sykes-Picot Agreement
  British Muslims, the Anglo-Ottoman society and the disillusioning of Marmaduke Pickthall
  The curious venture of J.R. Pilling
  Henry Morgenthau and the deceiving of Chaim Weizmann
  The man who was "Greenmantle"
  The Zaharoff gambit
  The ascendency of Chaim Weizmann
  Lawrence and the Arabs on the verge
  The Declaration at last
  The Declaration endangered
  A drawing together of threads.