Some short remarks;
Due to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire the British and French and in part the Russians revised the the Empire establishing many countries without thorough understanding of the tribal nature of most of the Arab population and its minorities by establishing various states from India to the East to Morocco on the Atlantic coast. Therefore the endless frictions since WWI to today with the more recent the civil war in Syria and continued tribal fighting in what we call Iraq and Afghanistan.
Russia's Stalin knowing the strength of the Azeri people en.wikipedia.org and the huge crude oil deposits in the Caspian Sea (Baku was already a "Oil Boom" town developed by Shell) asked the allied forces to divide Azerbaijan in two and half went to the USSR and half to today Iran. Tabriz is a old cultural center of the Azeri people. To further weaken the Azeris and Armenians he intermingled their territories to generate strife and hostilities that persist even today. Since the Tzarist times there is no love lost between the Russians and the Azeri people.
Within this frame work they also established the forerunner of the State of Israel Palestine the same way they defined most countries in the ME from India to Morocco.
As a result, Lord Balfour gave the Jews their homeland consisting of all of Jordan and the land west of the Jordan River. This was called the Balfour Agreement.
The 1917 letter that made public the British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine led the League of Nations to entrust the United Kingdom with the Palestine Mandate in 1922.
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"Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you. on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours,
Arthur James Balfour
In 1920, the League of Nations ratified the Balfour Agreement. The U.S. Congress Endorses Declaration (September 21, 1922)
The wording "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled.
That the United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which will prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christian and all other non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and that the holy places and religious buildings and sites in Palestine shall be adequately protected."
In 1922, under pressure from the Arabs, the British and the League of Nations took away Jordan, which is the actual state of the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. |
