WORLD WAR I
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Question
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Promises to Jews to establish home land
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Restriction of Jews immigration
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Promised to Arabs to establish a homeland
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Restriction of Arab immigration
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Balfour Declaration, which resulted in a significant upheaval in the lives of Palestinians, was issued on November 2, 1917. The declaration turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain publicly pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people ” there.
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: -The Balfour report was accepted in full by the 1926 Imperial Conference and thus filled its purpose of laying down the fundamental principles guiding the relations between the countries of the British Commonwealth, and of each to foreign countries.