1917: 2 November. The British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, sends a letter to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a leading Zionist and member of the Rothschild family, containing a promise by Great Britain to support a Jewish homeland in Palestine, stating: “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object…” This famous letter is known in history as the Balfour Declaration. A very important aspect of the letter reads: “…nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine”. Palestine is captured by British forces in December.
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