Balfour Declaration Dbq

The Balfour Declaration serves as evidence that the British supported a national home being made for the Jews in Palestine. The Brits supported the Jews with the hope that they would support them back as they go into World War I. After all, the final say in the publication of this document was determined by Britain’s War Cabinet. Forming a national home for the Jews would allow Britain to gain support of Jews in other countries that may serve as neutral. Having another country as an ally would only benefit the British, and as they say, the more people on their side the better their chances are. In time, the Jews would have Israel recognized as a state, but at the moment not everybody agreed on the formation and called it a home instead. It would only become the state when the Jews made the move and …show more content…
To this day it is kept in the British library as a reminder of the beginning. The declaration expresses the support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and how in this land religious and civil rights will be protected. When Russia’s new leader, Vladimir Lenin Bolshevik, set a truce for the war, the expected support from Jews in Russia became pointless as the fight ended. This declaration was used in the British mandate for Palestine, a document that stated Britain's rule in Southern Syria’s Ottoman Empire. Muslims and Arabs alike were against the Balfour Declaration, believing that a national home for the Jews would result in the loss of Arab Palestinians own. This then created the Arab Israeli war. When World War I ended and Britain felt secure, the amount of Jews in Palestine rose and resided in their “hopefully” soon established country. Arabs who disagreed with the new ruling had succumbed to violence, creating conflict in hopes of pushing Jews out of their new