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Balfour Declaration issued by British government

British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild expressing the British government's support for the establishment of a 'national home for the Jewish people' in Palestine.

Balfour Declaration issued by British government

The declaration became a key moment in wartime diplomacy over the Middle East, affecting Allied policy debates to which the Wilson administration had to respond and influencing postwar settlement discussions.

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