Myth: The Balfour Declaration Dispossessed the Palestinians

(Facebook) Martin Kramer - Truth: the Balfour Declaration was so vague that it could have led anywhere, and 31 years elapsed before the 1948 war. In that time, Palestinians made fateful errors, and most crucially, rejected the UN partition plan of 1947 that would have given them a state. Their Balfour myth is conveniently self-absolving.


2017-10-30 00:00:00

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