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PALESTINE -- La Palestine. Jaffa: March 25th, 1925. 2° (501 x 356mm). 4pp, single folded sheet. Masthead in English, French and Arabic, text in English. (Creases from folds, with two minute areas of loss where folds meet, 5mm closed tear at bottom edge, small pencil sketch to margin of front page.) As issued.
A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF LA PALESTINE, published at the time of Lord Balfour's arrival in Palestine for the opening of the Hebrew University a few days later (1st April). Mirroring the publication of Emile Zola's article J'Accuse in L'Aurore, the editor of La Palestine calls for the Balfour Declaration to be abandoned, referring to its reception by Arabs as 'the death knell of all hopes they cherished when the victorious British Armies entered their country in 1918.'
As Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Balfour had written to Lord Rothschild setting out what has become known as the Balfour Declaration: 'His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use its best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of that 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 other countries.'
A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF LA PALESTINE, published at the time of Lord Balfour's arrival in Palestine for the opening of the Hebrew University a few days later (1st April). Mirroring the publication of Emile Zola's article J'Accuse in L'Aurore, the editor of La Palestine calls for the Balfour Declaration to be abandoned, referring to its reception by Arabs as 'the death knell of all hopes they cherished when the victorious British Armies entered their country in 1918.'
As Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Balfour had written to Lord Rothschild setting out what has become known as the Balfour Declaration: 'His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use its best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of that 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 other countries.'