9 November 1917: The Balfour Declaration—In a carefully worded letter from Arthur Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, to influential Zionist leader Walter Rothschild, the Entente Powers came out in favor of "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people;" the Sharif of Mecca regarded it as a betrayal of promises made in the 1915-1916 McMahan-Hussein correspondence.
Lest we forget.
Commentary: The letter from Balfour to Rothschild was dated 2 November 1917, but published in the press on this date, 9 November, one hundred years ago.
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