The Israel-Hamas war | The Freeman
I find it fitting to mention here the then British foreign minister, Arthur Balfour, the person responsible for the Balfour Declaration in 1917 proposing to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. Part of his letter read like this, "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."