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Chaim Weizmann: The Zionist Dream (Hardcover)
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Chaim Weizmann: The Zionist Dream (Hardcover)
Series: Makers of the Modern World
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The Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the most defining
features of recent world history, flaring up into open war fare yet
again in Gaza at the end of 2008 and provoking large-scale
demonstrations in the streets of cities across the world. The
decision in 1919 by the Paris Peace Conference to award the Mandate
for Palestine to Great Britain - which had announced its commitment
to the creation of a national home for the Jewish people in the
Balfour Declaration two years previously - sowed the seeds of this
seemingly intractable problem, yet when the Zionist leader Chaim
Weizmann (1874-1952) spoke before the Conference on 27 February
1919, he would have appeared as only one of the many
representatives of minor nationalities putting their case to the
peacemakers, and, what is more, one whose people had no territory
of their own. How a Jewish chemistry professor from an obscure part
of Eastern Europe could find himself at the heart of international
diplomacy, and later become the first president of the State of
Israel, is one of the most fascinating stories of the Paris Peace
Conference and its aftermath. Ninety years after the Conference,
what Weizmann said and did there is an essential part of our
understanding of how this small, but critical, part of the world
evolved out of the deliberations.
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