Balfourdeklarationen 100 år

The Balfour Declaration
November 2, 2017, marks 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, a historic statement of sympathy issued by the British government for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. Lord Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, penned the historic letter on behalf of the British Government, to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, a prominent leader of Britain’s Jewish community.
The Declaration expressed the British government’s recognition of and support for the inalienable right of the Jewish people for self-determination in their historical homeland, the Land of Israel. 
(The Declaration refers to the Land of Israel as “Palestine,” since this was the common geographical denomination of the area at the time, without any political or ethnic connotation. Everyone living there was called "Palestinian," Jew and Arab alike). 
British Prime Minister Theresa May has described the Balfour Declaration as “one of the most important letters in history.” Meanwhile, the British government recently stated that, “establishing a homeland for the Jewish people in the land to which they had such strong historical and religious ties was the right and moral thing to do, particularly against the background of centuries of persecution.”  ...

Läs mera