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After the Ottoman Empire's defeat in World War I, Britain acquired Palestine and promised (in the Balfour Declaration) the creation of a Jewish state.
But the "disinterested historian, reviewing the history of the mandate, must conclude that the diplomatic framework for Zionist state-building from Balfour to Bevin was, in large measure, a British construct.
Weizmann was an important figure in the negotiations with the British government that led to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, supporting the idea of a Jewish “national home” in Palestine that also respected the rights of existing non-Jewish people already living there.
Your writing has no bigger fan than EW, but I must admit to finding some of the later novels a bit, shall we say, murky . Large & charming party at the Cineplex Odeon--the young Waldorf Astors, Mr. Balfour, Ld & Lady Elcho, Dcess of Manchester, Lady Essex, &c.
They promised to the one a national Jewish homeland and to the other protection of their rights, as set out in the 1917 Balfour Declaration.