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France and the Palestine Question before 1948
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September 12 2024
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Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question
Highlight | Since the early 1880s, French Baron Edmond de Rothschild supported financially the first Jewish agricultural colonies in Palestine that were established by the "Lovers of Zion." At the end of the Great War, the British imposed their mandate on Palestine to the detriment of France's interests, but France approved in 1947 the partition of Palestine and clandestinely delivered arms to the Zionists the following year.
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France and the Palestine Question before 1948
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Highlight - Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism - Heirs to the Mamluk policy, the Ottomans had closed Palestine to Europeans for fear of an offensive return of the Crusaders . The Latin...
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