Founding Document
A new book argues for the enduring significance of the 1917 Balfour Declaration
| 7:00 AM Aug 31, 2010
On October 31, 1917, the British Cabinet approved a one-sentence statement of policy regarding its plans for Palestine, which the British Army was just then in the process of conquering away from the Ottoman Empire: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will ...












