أرشيف الوسم : British Empire

By Ramzy Baroud The text of the letter was short and precise, leaving no room for any misinterpretation in the “promise” made by Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour to a powerful representative of the Jewish community in Britain, Lord Rothschild on a fateful day of 2 November 1917. “I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of …