HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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The British pledged their support for the creation of a “national home” for Kurds in Palestine.
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The British pledged their support for the creation of a “national home” for Arabs in Palestine.
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The British pledged their support for the creation of a “national home” for Uzbeks in Palestine.
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The British pledged their support for the creation of a “national home” for Jews in Palestine.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Balfour Declaration was a letter written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lionel Walter Rothschild, in which he expressed the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Detailed explanation-3: -On November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour writes an important letter to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The letter would eventually become known as the Balfour Declaration.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did the Balfour Declaration affect the postwar policies of the Middle East? It gave British approval to a national home for European Jews in Palestine. With an Allied victory in the major battles of 1916-1917, one Allied veteran stated: “Neither side had won, nor could win, the War.