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March 10, 2017       Share:    

Source: http://jcpa.org/article/winston-churchills-defense-balfour-declaration-1921/

Winston Churchill's Defense of the Balfour Declaration (1921)

(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Lenny Ben-David - On March 28, 1921, British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill visited Jerusalem where he attended a tree-planting ceremony on the site of the future Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. Churchill said: "The British Government have passed their word, by the mouth of Mr. Balfour, that they will view with favour the establishment of a National Home for Jews in Palestine, and that inevitably involves the immigration of Jews into the country." "Moreover, it is manifestly right that the Jews, who are scattered all over the world, should have a national centre and a National Home where some of them may be reunited. And where else could that be but in this land of Palestine, with which for more than 3,000 years they have been intimately and profoundly associated?"

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