La Palestine (newspaper). “A special edition in English issued on the occasion of the visit to Palestine of Lord Balfour, the statesman with whose name is associated the Declaration which to the Arabs signifies the death knell...”

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $3,250

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Place

Jaffa

Publication

March 25th, 1925

Description

Arabic and English texts

summary

The Arab press seized the opportunity of Lord James Balfour's highly symbolic guest appearance at the dedication ceremony of Hebrew University in Jerusalem to voice their extreme displeasure with the decidedly pro-Zionist direction Palestine had taken since its conquest by the British Army in 1918

pp. 4. Browned. Folio

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