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    <title>Balfour Declaration</title>
    <subTitle>the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Schneer, Jonathan.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Random House</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2010</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxix, 432 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Postlude as prelude -- Palestine before World War I -- "Ottomanism," "Arabism" and Sharif Hussein -- First steps towards the Arab revolt -- The next steps -- The Hussein-McMahon correspondence -- The Sykes-Picot agreement -- The revolt begins -- Prewar British Jews -- Weizmann's first steps -- The "assimilationists" -- The road forks -- Forging the British-Zionist connection -- Defining the British-Arab connection -- Managing the British-Zionist connection -- Sokolow in France and Italy -- Revelation of the Sykes Picot agreement -- British Muslims, the Anglo-Ottoman society and the disillusioning of Marmaduke Pickthall -- The curious venture of J.R. Pilling -- Henry Morgenthau and the deceiving of Chaim Weizmann -- The man who was "Greenmantle" -- The Zaharoff gambit -- The ascendency of Chaim Weizmann -- Lawrence and the Arabs on the verge -- The declaration at last -- The declaration endangered -- A drawing together of threads.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Jonathan Schneer.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-416) and index.</note>
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    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1917-1948</temporal>
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      <title>Balfour Declaration</title>
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    <topic>Zionism</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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    <topic>Zionism</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Turkey</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Turkey</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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    <topic>Arab-Israeli conflict</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Declaración de Balfour</topic>
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    <topic>Judíos</topic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Cuestión judía</topic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Sionismo</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Palestina</topic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
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