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Sept 27/10 - Pt 2: Balfour Declaration
We're moving back in time to 1917 ... The year Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur James Balfour, issued the Balfour Declaration. It helped set in motion a series of events that changed the map of the Middle East. And according to the author of a new book, it laid the foundation for the conflict we see there today.
PART TWO
Balfour Declaration
PART TWO
Balfour Declaration
We started this segment with a clip from the Balfour Declaration -- one of the most important and one o the shortest foreign policy statements ever uttered. It was signed by Arthur James Balfour -- Britain's Foreign Secretary -- in 1917. And it helped lead to the establishment of the State of Israel, 31 years later.
But according to Jonathan Schneer, the simplicity of that message obscures a history of duplicity and deceit that has bogged down peace efforts for decades and resonates even today as another round of peace talks hits more snags. His new book is The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He was in our Toronto studio.
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