Tuesday, March 09, 2021

Weizmann and Feisal 1918

The famous Chaim Weizmann - Emir Feisal meeting of 1919 resulting in an understnding if not outright agreement is well documented and debated. The central element was that Feisal agreed in principle that there would be an Arab State and there would be Palestine with "respective territories". Future "definite boundaries" between them will be determined.

Moreover, 

measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale, and as quickly as possible to settle Jewish immigrants upon the land through closer settlement and intensive cultivation of the soil.

A bit less so is their June 1918 metting.

From the political report of June 20, 1918:


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