Balfour Declaration
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title:
Balfour Declaration
text:
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. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Fe
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wiki
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description:
British government statement of 1917
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
date created:
2001-12-15T13:22:31Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T06:05:18Z
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