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The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
Balfour Declaration, statement on November 2, 1917, of British support for ‘the establishment in Palestine of a national home for Jewish people.’ It was made in a letter from the British foreign secretary to a leader of the Anglo-Jewish community and was later included in the British mandate over Palestine.
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Dec 14, 2017 · Learn about the letter that expressed British support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine during World War I and its long-term effects. Find out the motives, opposition and legacy of the Balfour Declaration.
Nov 2, 2018 · The Balfour Declaration (“Balfour’s promise” in Arabic) was a public pledge by Britain in 1917 declaring its aim to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
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- Zena Al Tahhan
The Balfour Declaration was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild in 1917, expressing support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. The letter also stated that the rights of non-Jewish communities and Jews in other countries would be respected.
Read the full text of the Balfour Declaration here. The declaration came following years of Zionist efforts during World War I to cultivate support from Britain and its allies, in case they wrested control of Palestine from the German-aligned Ottoman Empire.
Nov 2, 2017 · The Balfour Declaration: 100 years of conflict. The British peer Arthur Balfour barely makes an appearance in UK schoolbooks, but many Israeli and Palestinian students could tell you...
