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This essay is a brief discussion of the Balfour Declaration, the document by which Britain, in 1916, committed itself to support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The paper reveals that unfortunately, the British were already promising the Arabs of the region independence, and promising the French that they would control part of the region. The paper discusses how this effectively set the stage for the current Arab-Israeli conflict.

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"In one of his Supreme Court opinions, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, voiced what it has been to be a Jew: "One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history" (Frankfurter (1943), 646). With this history, Jews had longed for centuries to have a nation where they would be accepted. The persecutions that they had suffered had been the stuff of overwhelming tragedy (Durant, 1950, 385-94, 589-90)and their repeated expulsions from various countries (Crow, 1963, 33-39; Durant, 1957, 216-20), had only increased their longing for a homeland, a place which being defined as a Jewish state, could not expel them."

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