Balfour Declaration

A 1917 declaration issued by British foreign secretary Lord Balfour promising "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," despite the fact that the land was already home to around three quarters of a million indigenous people, over 95% of whom were not Jewish.

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Al Jazeera- More than a Century On, the Balfour Declaration Explained

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