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   From: Z@erkonx.net   
      
   On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:16:58 -0700, Aardvark wrote:   
      
   >  "How did Israelis get the bright idea   
      
   Foreign Office,   
   November 2nd, 1917.   
      
   Dear Lord Rothschild,   
   I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's   
   Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist   
   aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:   
   "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".   
   I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge   
   of the Zionist Federation.   
      
   Yours sincerely   
   Arthur James Balfour   
      
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