Faisal-Weizmann Agreement 1919, its Circumstances and Factors Historical and Analytical Study
Raed Hayajneh, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
Abstract
This study investigates Faisal-Weizmann agreement signed in London by Emir Faisal on behalf of his father, the king of Hijaz, and Weizmann as a Zionist Movement representative. The study discusses the agreement along two parameters; historically and analytically.
Historically speaking, the study has indicated the circumstances leading to the signing of the agreement on 3 November 1919. It sheds lights on the grounds. which made possible the Zionist-British congruence of fulfilling the Jewish dream of a homeland. This was achieved by means of bringing the two parties involved together first in a meeting held at the Aqaba-based Faisal Headquarter in 1918, and then in another meeting six months later in London where the agreement was Finally signed.
Analytically, the study tackled several controversial points of view. concerning the agreement. Many stipulated articles in the agreement have been discussed, as well as its immediate and far-reaching goals. More importantly, the study also highlighted the pressures put on Emir Faisal by Britain, France and Zionist Movement to force him to sign the agreement.