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Loading... Legacy of empire : Britain, Zionism and the creation of Israel (edition 2019)by Gardner Thompson
Work InformationLegacy of Empire: Britain's Support of Zionism and The Creation of Israel by Gardner Thompson
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"The focus is on British imperial motivation, action, responsibility and failure. The unexpected British adoption of Zionism in 1917 (and, more significant, its consolidated commitment in the 1922 Mandate) was neither inevitable nor (at that time, especially) necessary. It was ill-judged and defied argument, evidence, reason, and British interests (and contemporary experience in Ireland). 0As the correspondent John Jeffries noted in 1939, from 1923 there were only consequences. British sponsorship of Jewish colonisation directed towards a Jewish National Home/state in Palestine led inexorably to bitter conflict. Arab revolt and the Peel Commission brought a fatally divided "Israel" into embryonic existence before World War Two."-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)327.4105694Social sciences Political Science International Relations Europe British IslesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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