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The Balfour Declaration and the birth of Israel
Gwynne Dyer notes that wartime fears and religious beliefs shaped the 1917 Balfour Declaration. He traces Zionist hopes, the Cairo conference’s Transjordan decision, and later events that led to Israel's foundation in 1948 with Holocaust-driven immigration and UN legitimacy.
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