Transcript: Profile: From the Balfour Declaration to the end of World War II violence has simmered in the Middle East

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Profile: From the Balfour Declaration to the end of World War II violence has simmered in the Middle East

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Today, the second part of a series, The Mideast: A Century of Conflict Between Palestine and Israel, picks up two decades after Theodor Herzl and the early Zionists, in 1897, launched the movement to establish a Jewish homeland. It took that long--20 years--for the first great diplomatic breakthrough, the Balfour Declaration, in which Britain declared itself in favor of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Britain then sought to ...

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