Was Balfour Declaration a banking deal?In 1917, Britain wrote a 67-word letter that promised a land it didn't own, to a people who didn't live there, over the heads of those who did. That letter — the Balfour Declaration — is still reshaping the world today.But the story you've been told leaves out the most important part.By 1917, Britain was financially collapsing. Its national debt had exploded from £650 million to nearly £7.2 billion. Its overdraft at J.P. Morgan had hit $400 million. Woodrow Wilson was using American money as a weapon, threatening to cut off the loans keeping the Allied war effort alive. Britain came within hours of default — twice.
>>18521436>Was Balfour Declaration a banking deal?No. Balfour and several other members of the cabinet had been zionists long before the war broke out. It became opportune to promise the Jews a homeland in 1917 because it was apparent the Ottoman Empire wouldn't survive, making a Jewish state in the Middle East tenable.
>>18521661Sounds like a really shitty deal.
>>18521661>Balfour and several other members of the cabinet had been zionists long before the war broke out.Thats because they wanted to keep wandering jews out of England
>>18521436I will look up the exact quote and its source later, but it goes something like this: "I have it on good authority that when Lord Balfour made his famous declaration about Palestine, he did not know there were Arabs living in that country".
>>18521436I'm Jewish so this is a loaded topic for me but there were Jews living in Palestine and before the Balfour Declaration and there were non-negligible waves of migration there even under the Ottomans.
>>18522224>"there were jews living in Palestine"there are jews living EVERYWHERE. that's not a basis to claim anything. I bet that there were fewer jews in Palestine at the time of the Balfour declaration than there were in my native city (which is Sathmar, so maybe that's not too significant).
>>18521436I miss when people used to write their own bait instead of getting ai do it for them.
>>18522214It's amazing how well the Non-Jewish Pro-Zionist Western ruling class has buried the fact that they supported Zionism specifically because it would allow them to expel Europes Jews in a way that wouldn't upset Liberals too much. Zionism only took on a religious dimension or ideology about "democracy, freedom, and the holocaust" when it's main basis of foreign patronage switched to America, whose ruling class (bar a few outliers like Henry Ford) ass a group had no real desire to expel it's Jewish population like Europes did.
>>18521436palestine lost, tranny
>>18522232Zionism was already a thing at that point and the first aliyah/migration wave had happened, you're thinking of earlier in like the 18th/early 19th centuryit wasn't as Jewish as it'd become under British rule but they were already a relevant enough population in the area to be worth trying to win over
>>18522218>"I have it on good authority that when Lord Balfour made his famous declaration about Palestine, he did not know there were Arabs living in that country".This is bullshit but it sounds so much in character for the Eternal Anglo as to be believable.
>>18522407>It was real in my mind
