ABSTRACT
IMPLICATIONS Issued during World War I, Lord Balfour’s statement was carefully crafted. A Jewish state in Palestine was the fundamental goal of the Zionist movement and, as such, the
declaration appealed to Zionists within the Allied Powers, to the newly installed Russian Revolutionary government, which had several members of Jewish ancestry, and to the Jewish populations within the Central Powers. Despite this, there were some in the Zionist camp who were displeased that the declaration did not include all of Palestine as the location for the Jewish state.
