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The Balfour Declaration: A Wartime Expediency that Doomed a Region

Issued on All Souls' Day, 1917, the Balfour Declaration was a 67-word letter from the British Foreign Secretary to a Zionist banker. It pledged British support for "a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine," with a crucial caveat: it must not harm the rights of the "existing non-Jewish communities" (over 90% of the population).

Its core truths are:

A War Weapon, Not a Moral Vision: It was issued to secure wartime loans from American Jews, keep Russia fighting, and lock in British control of Jerusalem as troops advanced.

A Triple Betrayal: It directly contradicted two other secret British promises: the Sykes-Picot Agreement (to split the region with France) and the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence (promising Arab independence).

The Seed of Endless Conflict: It provided the legal foundation for the state of Israel and is simultaneously remembered by Palestinians as the foundational document of the Nakba (Catastrophe).

A Deliberate Contradiction: It promised a Jewish homeland in a land where Jews were 8% of the population, while vowing to protect the majority's rights—an impossible, knowingly dishonest formula.

In essence, the Balfour Declaration was a cynical, imperial act that mortgaged one people's homeland to secure another empire's victory, creating a century of conflict from its very first, contradictory words.

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