The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate did not promise the Jews a State [View all]

Unlike the vague language of the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate Charter clearly affirmed Palestinian self-determination as a core principle of international law — and promised independence at a time when Palestinian Christian and Muslim Arabs made up 90% of the population. This video explores how British duplicity, driven by imperial interests, planted the seeds of a conflict that still reverberates today.

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