balfour

A:Chordite. That was all of it. Just Chordite.

A:I ordered a Balfour ring my Senior year in HS. It came in promptly. It didn't cost a lot. I think it's interesting that I haven't known for years what happened to that ring... Nice? About as nice as one would expect for the price. Quality? Same answer. Service? I don't know. I didn't need to have anything done to it.

A:I think it did helped,besides all the pressure of jewish loby and the zionest organisation on british gouvernement,and Belfour himself was a zionest too,theses all important factors,but also there is more,britsh wanted russian jews to be engaged with national home in palestine,to weaken russian front,this is amoung other reasons.

A:It was not offered to Balfour; Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild indicating that the government "viewed with favor" the establishment of a jewish state in post-war Palestine. No one has ever unraveled the circumstances of this strange comminication. Normally it would have been sent to the president of the World Zionist Organization,so the fact that it was sent to Rothschild - a prominent member of a prominent banking concern - suggests that the issue of war loans was a factor,particularly since England was not winning their war at that juncture,U.S. forces having not yet been deployed. Essentially Rothschild appears to have bought Palestine for European jews experiencing nostalgia.

A:Firstly, the "Balfour Declaration" was not a declaration but a statement of intent sent in a private letter to Lord Rothschild, an influential British Jew, partly with the aim of keeping international Jewry on the British side during WW1. Secondly, it's not true that the Labour government of Clement Attlee elected after WW2 wanted to reverse the plan to set up a Jewish state in Palestine. They were caught in the middle of a deteriorating situation between Jews and Arabs, and with no resources after six years of war, turned the problem over to the newly-formed United Nations. The UN recommended that Britain should give up the mandate over Palestine given it by the UN's predecessor, the League of Nations, and drew up a plan for partition of the land into two separate Jewish and Arab states of roughly equal size, with Jerusalem and Bethlehem governed internationally. The provisional Jewish government and most Jews applauded and accepted this plan, but the Arabs saw themselves as losing the best land and rejected it (many of them would have been in a large minority in the Jewish state). However it was the extremist Jews of the Stern and Irgun gangs, pioneering modern terrorism, who attacked Arab settlements, British forces and administrators and indeed their own official forces, making the plan unworkable and provoking the 1947-8 conflict. By a programme of ruthless ethnic cleansing they acheived more than their original objective; most Arabs fled to Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza and the "safe" area in and around Nazareth and the Israeli state was established with about 80% of the land west of the Jordan river instead of the 55% envisaged by the UN plan.