The Balfour Declaration: 100 years on
It is 100 years since the Balfour Declaration. The declaration - 67 words - by the then foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, was included in a letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leading proponent of Zionism, a movement advocating self-determination for the Jewish people in their historical homeland - from the Mediterranean to the eastern flank of the River Jordan, an area which came to be known as Palestine. It stated that the British government supported "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". Here we examine the impact of the declaration. (Photo: Lord Arthur Balfour and Governor Sir Ronald Storrs during a visit to Jerusalem, 9th April 1925. Credit: Topical Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)