TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schneer,Jonathan
TI  - Balfour declaration : the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict 
SN  - 9780812976038
AV  - DS125.5 .S366 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Random House
KW  - Balfour Declaration
KW  - Zionism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict
KW  - Palestine
KW  - 1917-1948
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Turkey
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-416) and index; 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
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