Britain Sold Palestine to Pay Its WWI Debt. The Balfour Declaration Was a Banking Deal!

In 1917, Britain wrote a 67-word letter that promised a land it didn't own, to a people who didn't live there, over the heads of those who did. That letter — the Balfour Declaration — is still reshaping the world today.
But the story you've been told leaves out the most important part.
By 1917, Britain was financially collapsing. Its national debt had exploded from £650 million to nearly £7.2 billion. Its overdraft at J.P. Morgan had hit $400 million. Woodrow Wilson was using American money as a weapon, threatening to cut off the loans keeping the Allied war effort alive. Britain came within hours of default — twice.
So Britain did what desperate empires do. It made deals. It promised Palestine to the Arabs in exchange for the Arab Revolt. It secretly agreed with France to carve up the Ottoman Empire. And then it promised the same land to the Zionist movement — in a letter addressed personally to Lord Rothschild.
This video traces the financial crisis behind the Balfour Declaration, the Rothschild family's decades of settlement funding in Palestine, the chemistry of explosives that gave Chaim Weizmann access to the highest levels of British power, and the three contradictory promises that created a century of conflict. From J.P. Morgan's war loans to the Suez Canal strategy to the collapse of the British Empire itself — this is the full story of how banking, desperation, and imperial ambition converged to reshape the Middle East forever.
Sources include the Rothschild Archive, IMF historical records, Britannica, the 1914-1918 Online Encyclopedia, CEPR economic research, and primary Cabinet documents.


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Great Civilizations and Empires

Ancient civilizations and Empires

• 3300 BC. - Early civilizations, Mesopotamia, was located in the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, and regions along the Turkish-Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders. They were Herders, Farmers, had knowledge of Brass and Iron, Cuneiform writing. 

  

  Mesopotamia Cuneiform writing

• 2300 BC. Nimrod, the Babylonians...
• 2300 BC. was the beginning of the first Egyptian civilization followed by the Old Kingdom.
• 2300 BC. The Yellow Emperor is said to be the ancestor of Chinese civilizations.
• 2300 BC. The Hindus Valley civilizations, one the 3 old world early civilizations.
• 2300-2200 BC. Phoenicia: The great navigators, traders.
• 2200 BC. The Mayan civilizations of central America.
• 2200 BC. Traces of Ancient Chosun civilization were found in the areas of Northern Korea, and the south east of today's China. It led to the Gojoseon Kingdom (ancestors of today's Korea).
• 1600 BC. Ancient Greece early stages, to culminate under Alexander the Great of Macedonia.
• 1100 BC.  Birth of the Kingdom of Israel. Under the second King, David, expanded its military power and conquests. The 3rd King Solomon, took the Kingdom to a prosperity known by all neighbors. He actively worked and traded with the Phoenicians and Assyrians. The Kingdom split right after his death (974 BC.). First, the Northern Kingdom was invaded by the Assyrians (Capital Damascus was destroyed).  Later, the Southern Kingdom was utterly destroyed by the Babylonians around 600 BC. The survivors fled or were taken captive.

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  Kingdom of Israel

  

  Persian Empire
• 550 BC. The Persian Empire succeeded the Assyrians and the Babylonians, until the Muslim conquest around 650 AD. 
• 500 BC. Roman civilization gave birth to the mighty Roman Empire. It's division and gradual decline until the end of 4th century AD.
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• 622 AD The Muslim Empire began with the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, It's expansion under the Umayyad Caliphate (7th century), extended conquests to southern Europe, including North Africa, Caucasus and central Asia until 1099. 

  

  Muslim Umayyad Caliphate

• 1200 AD The Aztecs. The Nahua people and the Aztlan migrants formed what was to become the Aztec Empire. It ended with the Spanish conquest under Hernan Cortes. (15th century)
• 1200 AD The Incas begun in the area of Cusco Peru. They were conquered by the Spanish Francisco Pizarro in the mid 15th century.
• 1206 AD Genghis Khan proclaimed ruler of the Mongols. Followed 2 centuries of conquest to create the largest contiguous land Empire in history. Civil war and division ended this huge Empire.
  
• 16th Century saw the rise of the Spanish Empire. It became a global power by the 18th century with the greatest territorial expansion.
• Late 16th Century, the British Empire, a Global power by the late 1800's. Largest Empire in history.
• Late 16th Century, the French Colonial Empire, became Napoleon's conquest Empire in the early 1800's.
• 17th Century Russian Empire stretching over 3 continents, defeated Napoleon's ambitions.

Chronological view of Ancient Civilizations and the greatest Empires of the World.

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Civilizations and Empires of the World

Ancient civilizations and Empires

• 3300 BC. - Mesopotamia, was located in the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, and regions along the Turkish-Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders.
• 3200 BC. was the beginning of the first Egyptian civilization followed by the Old Kingdom.
• 2698 BC. The Yellow Emperor is said to be the ancestor of Chinese civilizations.
• 2600 BC. The Mayan civilizations of central America.
• 2600 BC. The Hindus Valley civilizations, one the 3 old world early civilizations.
• 2300 BC. traces of Ancient Chosun civilization were found in the areas of Northern Korea, and the south east of today's China. It led to the Gojoseon Kingdom (ancestors of today's Korea).
• 1600 BC. Ancient Greece early stages.
• 550 BC. The Persian Empire until the Muslim conquest around 650 AD.
• 500 BC. Roman civilization gave birth to the mighty Roman Empire. It's division and gradual decline until the end of 4th century AD.
• 622 AD The Muslim Empire began with the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, It's expansion under the Umayyad Caliphate (7th century), extended conquests to southern Europe, including North Africa, Caucasus and central Asia until 1099.
• 1200 AD The Aztecs. The Nahua people and the Aztlan migrants formed what was to become the Aztec Empire. It ended with the Spanish conquest under Hernan Cortes. (15th century)
• 1200 AD The Incas begun in the area of Cusco Peru. They were conquered by the Spanish Francisco Pizarro in the mid 15th century.
• 1206 AD Genghis Khan proclaimed ruler of the Mongols. Followed 2 centuries of conquest to create the largest contiguous land Empire in history. Civil war and division ended this huge Empire.
• 16th Century saw the rise of the Spanish Empire. It became a global power by the 18th century with the greatest territorial expansion.
• Late 16th Century, the British Empire, a Global power by the late 1800's. Largest Empire in history.
• Late 16th Century, the French Colonial Empire, became Napoleon's conquest Empire in the early 1800's.
• 17th Century Russian Empire stretching over 3 continents, defeated Napoleon's ambitions.

Chronological view of Ancient Civilizations and the greatest Empires of the World.