Zach Bornheimer's History Portfolio

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• Who: Golda Meir
• Where: Jerusalem (Before the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry
• When: March 25, 1946
• What: Golda Meir’s testimony to convince the major powers to support the development of a Jewish State
• Purpose: Golda Meir is trying to convince the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry that the Jews need a separate state
• Value: Allows us to see the original argument of Golda Meir for a Jewish state and the reasons why a Jewish State needs to be established
• Limitations: Golda Meir does not talk about the reason Palestine is the ideal place (besides that pioneers already chose it) and it is biased towards the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.  Golda Meir uses emotional appeal, so it is difficult to see the real facts behind the opionions.  There is also no outline of what Golda Meir wants for the new state.

• Who: Negib Azoury
• Where: Paris
• When: 1905
• What: An opinion about the Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland
• Purpose: A document in which Negib Azoury articulates his opinion about the league and attempts to refute the league’s plan and dismantle its platform (e.g. by stating that Egypt cannot be united with the Arab Empire).
• Value: Can give us an inside look at an Arab’s point of view of the league and the a primordial form of Arab Nationalism (Azoury wants a central empire controlled by a devoted sherif rather than more countries that could not be controlled well and would be introducing “the germs of discord and destruction”).
• Limitations: The actual platform of the league is not present, so Azoury might be leaving key facts out of his statement and this limits the ability to analyze this document completely.  This statement was translated from its original language to English making its original diction unrecoverable, so we cannot view what Azoury wrote, but rather what the translator translated with an accuracy of which we do not know.