Lines in the Sand: Britain, America and the Formation of the State of Israel

Posted by on Jan 27, 2024 in east west issues, First World War, most recent | 0 comments  A slightly revised and corrected version of an article that first appeared in New View magazine issue 110 Jan.-March 2024 David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, read out Israel’s Declaration of Independence in the Tel Aviv Museum Hall on 14 May 1948; it included the following words: “In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore...
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