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Myth: The U.S. Was Not Part of the Balfour Declaration
(Facebook) Martin Kramer - Lots of people assume that the Balfour Declaration was a British thing, no business of America's. Truth: President Wilson approved the text in advance, and praised it in a public letter afterwards. In 1922, both Houses of the U.S. Congress passed a resolution endorsing it (Lodge-Fish), and President Harding signed it. So yes, the U.S. fully backed the Balfour Declaration. The writer was the founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, where he teaches the modern history of the Middle East.