Compromise: Weizmann’s “Speech to the 20th Zionist Congress”
In 1937, a fierce dispute emerged amongst Jews across the globe: should the Zionist movement accept the recommendations of the Peel Commission to partition the Land of Israel into two states? Many Zionists saw this proposal not only as a betrayal of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which they believed…
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