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The Balfour Declaration is a letter dated 2 November 1917, written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British Government’s support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. This document was issued during World War I as part of Britain’s strategic policies against the Ottoman Empire, aiming to gain the support of the Jewish diaspora and bolster the Zionist movement. The declaration is regarded as a pivo