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Originally Posted by aMFliberal The Balfour Declaration was made by the British government. America entered the war after constant pressure that it was ignoring Europe's problems and that it needed to end the stalemate, which it did. The Zionists were the British governments concern at that point. |
That is the "P.R." reason.
The US government couldn't very well have told Americans to go fight the Germans so that Lord Rothshild could get Palestine.
No one would have been willingly to die for that. |