Balfour Declaration - Milestone Documents

Balfour Declaration

( 1917 ) Commentary by Martin Bunton, University of Victoria

“I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.” - Paragraph 1

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Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate. (Library of Congress)

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