When it comes to the roots of the Palestinian tragedy, many point to the Nakba ("Catastrophe") of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homeland. Others point to the famous Balfour Declaration of 1917 as the pivotal point that set the stage for the establishment of a Zionist state in historic Palestine. However, two years after the declaration was signed, a lesser-known but highly significant event occurred: the signing of the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement on January 3, 1919.