Palestine - A Century of Empty Promises: History of a World Conflict (German Edition)

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour declared his intention to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, thus adopting a proposal developed exactly 20 years earlier at the Zionist World Congress in Basel. The Balfour Declaration is a significant geopolitical watershed that has continued to unsettle the Middle East and serves as a prime example of British imperialism. At the time of the declaration, Palestine was an Ottoman province that had to be conquered.

The 100th anniversary of this link between British global aspirations and Zionism serves as an opportunity for editor Fritz Edlinger to analyze the promises made and the missed opportunities of the decades since, as well as to present current solutions to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The book covers key points of remembrance, such as the UN Partition Plan of 1947, which envisioned an economic union between Palestine and Israel, the 50th anniversary of the 1967 occupation, when Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula (later returned to Egypt) in the Six-Day War, as well as the "War of Stones," referring to the first Intifada of 1987.

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