The text of the Balfour Declaration.
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War.
It announced the British support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in an Ottoman region called Palestine.
It also maintained the rights of other non-Jewish communities in the region.
His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
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