“Our policy may fail; I do not deny that this is an adventure. Are we never to have adventures? Are we never to try new experiments?” Arthur Balfour said, in an address to the House of Lords, ...

It has been 100 years since the Balfour Declaration – issued by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 – offered the first international recognition of Jewish national aspirations. In many ways, its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They are now on view at the National Museum of American Jewish History So it’s no wonder that the declaration is one of the focal ...

The Balfour Declaration expresses the recognition by the international community of the inalienable rights of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland. The Palestinian leadership's denial of the ...

The British peer Arthur Balfour barely makes an appearance in UK schoolbooks, but many Israeli and Palestinian students could tell you about him. His Balfour Declaration, made on 2 November 1917, is ...

The Guardian newspaper released a list of their “worst errors of judgment” over the past 200 years on May 7, which included their support of the Balfour Declaration. The article, which was written by ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 2015, Tobias Ellwood, Britain's foreign and commonwealth affairs minister for the Middle East and Africa, said that ...

I hate Mr. Balfour’s pronouncement. … To my mind it’s a wholly artificial scheme divorced from all relation to facts, and I ...

It is now 100 years since the Balfour Declaration was issued. In a letter dated Nov. 2, 1917, British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour submitted a letter to Walter Rothschild, the leader of the British ...

How often have we followed current events, only to discover that what seemed like a local concern has snowballed into an incomprehensible conflict with far-reaching consequences? Tensions in the ...

Out of the caldron that was World War I, the British government gave its blessing to a document that set the stage for what is arguably the most enduring and intractable geopolitical conflict of the ...