"The Balfour Declaration" by Arthur James EXPLAIN Balfour, 1917 C Directions: Read the following passage. Use the annotated guidelines on page iv of this credit to help take notes on the primary source document below. Find the author's claim (main purpose and the evidence (support) used to back up the claim. "The Balfour Declaration" was a letter from the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to Lionel Walter Rothschild, who was considered to be the most |influential leader of the British Jewish community. The letter was published in the newspapers one week later and it was widely considered by the Jewish community as a declaration of Great Britain's support for a Jewish homeland. Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917. Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you . on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy wi th Jewish 210n1st aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by , the Cabinet His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will I 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" I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

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Which state nullified the Tariff of 1828 and the Tariff of 1832? Massachusetts South Carolina Tennessee Virginia

Ottoman power rested on: military might great leadership Each answer shown religious authority flexibility and tolerance in politics

How did Roman and Greek governments influence the United States?

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