The Balfour Declaration ― Sixty-seven Words - 100 Years of Conflict

The Balfour Declaration: Sixty-Seven Words – 100 Years of Conflict is a concise account of the players, motivations, and setting for one of the most consequential letters of modern history. The letter began a process by which the international community came to embrace the idea of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. Jager brings to life the extraordinary personalities working amid the global conflict that was World War I. With the war still raging and despite political machinations and numerous secret deals, the Balfour Declaration was issued publicly. Britain promised Palestine to no one but the Jews – yet almost immediately, it began backtracking. One hundred years later, amid the Arab world’s unremitting rejection of the very idea of a Jewish homeland, this book spells out the backstory of today’s headlines

Elliot Jager is a Jerusalem-based journalist, lecturer, and senior contributing editor at the Jerusalem Report. He holds a PhD from NYU in political science and a BA in Judaic studies from Brooklyn College. Before moving to Israel in 1997, he worked for the New York City government and was an adjunct assistant professor of political science. His memoir The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness was published in 2015. He was editorial project director and content writer of balfour100, a project of the UK-based Jewish Leadership Council.