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Centennary of Balfour Declaration marked this week
This week marked the centennary of the Balfour Declaration, the letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It read: His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. Reporter Mark Weiss spoke with Colin Shindler , emeritus professor of Israel Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and asked him about the significance of the Balfour Declaration
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