Today marks the 105th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in which the British Foreign Minister pledged to create a homeland for Jews in Palestine. The pledge was made in a letter on November 2, 1917, addressed to Lord Lionel Walter de Rothschild, the head of the Jewish community in England, and includes an indication. support the British government in its effort to create a national home for Jews in Palestine.
At the time, Balfour made the following statement in a speech: “The government of His Majesty is looking with sympathy to establish a national shrine in Palestine for the Jewish people and will do its effort to facilitate this goal, provided it is clear that it will not be fulfilled by action that would detract from the civil and religious rights enjoyed by the sects.” neither the rights nor the political environment that Jews enjoy in any other nation apply to non-Jewish residents in Palestine.
The promise was associated with that name in relation to the letter of the letter, which is the British Foreign Minister at that time Arthur James Balfour, and Palestine was at that time under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, and it signed under the British occupation one month after the promise, and the British Mandate announced in Palestine in 1920, where it was decided After the First World War, the Balfour Declaration served as the foundation for the new borders of Palestine.
The Jews immediately started to immigrate to the Palestinian lands in large groups, and they attempted to take over land in the regions known as “historical Palestine.” This was one of the effects that led to the promise to announce the British Mandate on Palestine in 1920, the establishment of the Hebrew state, which was formally announced on May 14, 1948, and the beginning of the 48 war, which ended in 1945.
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