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The Balfour Declaration and the History of Palestine

Britain made it clear whose nationalist project is supported in Palestine. In 1917, the foreign secretary penned what became known as the Balfour Declaration. Rashid: If it weren't for European anti-Semitism, I'm not sure you would have had Zionists. The idea that Jews could not live in Christian Europe and had to find an alternative seized many Jews.

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