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One-Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration
A century since the British government letter which endorsed a Jewish homeland.
A century since the British government letter which endorsed a Jewish homeland. The current Lord Balfour reflects on what drove his ancestor and we hear from a Palestinian and an Israeli.
Also in the programme: Catalonia court case and the house where Bizet wrote Carmen.
(Photo: A map of Palestine, taken from The Public Schools Atlas of Modern Geography, published by Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. Holy Land Israel Middle East Jerusalem Bethlehem credit: BBC)
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Thu 2 Nov 201714:06GMT
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