The price required in return for this generous offer from the Zionists was a guarantee from Britain that they would be offered Palestine as the long-awaited Jewish ‘homeland’ after the war was won. Obviously Britain had no right to promise Palestine to anyone and it is absolutely absurd that Great Britain, who never had any connection, any interest in or any rights to Palestine, should offer it as payment to the Zionists for bringing the United States into the war. However, make that promise they most certainly did, in October of 1916 (as confirmed by the Balfour Declaration of 1917) and
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