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The Balfour Declaration was Great Britain's promise to pay the Zionists what they had agreed upon as a consideration for getting the United States into the war.

World War I broke out in the summer of 1914.

Within two years Germany had won that war and won it actually. The German submarines, which were a surprise to the world, had swept all the convoys from the Atlantic Ocean. Great Britain stood there without ammunition for her soldiers, with one week's food supply -- and after that, starvation. At that time, the French army had mutinied. They had lost 600,000 of French youth in the defence of Verdun on the Somme. The Russian army was defecting, they were going home, they didn't want war anymore, and they didn't like the Czar. The Italian army had collapsed.

Germany was offering England peace terms. They offered England a negotiated peace on a status quo ante basis. That means: "Call the war off, and let everything be as it was before the war started."

England, in the summer of 1916 was considering that -- seriously. They had little choice. It was either accepting this negotiated peace that Germany was magnanimously offering them, or going on with the war and being totally defeated.

The Zionists in Germany, who represented the Zionists from Eastern Europe, went to the British War Cabinet and they said: "You don't have to accept the negotiated peace offered to you by Germany. You can win this war if the United States will come in as your ally." The United States was not in the war at that time. They told England: "We will guarantee to bring the United States into the war as your ally, to fight with you on your side, if you will promise us Palestine after you win the war."

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The Balfour Declaration was Great Britain's promise to pay the Zionists what they had agreed upon as a consideration for getting the United States into the war.

World War I broke out in the summer of 1914.

Within two years Germany had won that war and won it actually. The German submarines, which were a surprise to the world, had swept all the convoys from the Atlantic Ocean. Great Britain stood there without ammunition for her soldiers, with one week's food supply -- and after that, starvation. At that time, the French army had mutinied. They had lost 600,000 of French youth in the defence of Verdun on the Somme. The Russian army was defecting, they were going home, they didn't want war anymore, and they didn't like the Czar. The Italian army had collapsed.

Germany was offering England peace terms. They offered England a negotiated peace on a status quo ante basis. That means: "Call the war off, and let everything be as it was before the war started."

England, in the summer of 1916 was considering that -- seriously. They had little choice. It was either accepting this negotiated peace that Germany was magnanimously offering them, or going on with the war and being totally defeated.

The Zionists in Germany, who represented the Zionists from Eastern Europe, went to the British War Cabinet and they said: "You don't have to accept the negotiated peace offered to you by Germany. You can win this war if the United States will come in as your ally." The United States was not in the war at that time. They told England: "We will guarantee to bring the United States into the war as your ally, to fight with you on your side, if you will promise us Palestine after you win the war."

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