Balfour Declaration
Zionist homeland letter
The Balfour Declaration was a 1917 letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild stating British support for establishing a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.
This brief document profoundly shaped Middle Eastern politics and remains central to discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The declaration committed Britain to facilitating Jewish settlement while nominally protecting the rights of existing non-Jewish communities, a tension that has never been resolved.
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