History of the occupation of Palestine

Balfour Declaration

After the Basel conference in 1897, the second turning point in the occupation of Palestine was the Balfour Declaration. 

In 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour sent a 67-word letter to Zionist figure Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, in which he announced his government's support for the establishment of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine.