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Balfour Declaration
Date:
November 02 2024
Digital project:
Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question
Highlight | On 2 November 1917, the Zionist project gained its first international legitimacy with the issuance of this declaration by the most powerful colonial state at the time. The declaration dealt with the Jews as a people with political rights, while it considered the Palestinian Arabs as "non-Jewish communities" with only civil and religious rights.
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