...promising them a 'home' in Palestine. Only much later the term 'home' came under Zionist pressure to be interpreted as 'independent Jewish State' , much to the dismay of the Arab world.
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Balfour Declaration of 1917.
The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 promised to establish a Jewish home (not homeland) in Palestine.
gave power to the brtian - No. Answer: The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 states that the UK supported to establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Since Palestine was largely Muslim (including many Arabian Muslims), many Arabians opposed establishing a state for European Jews in an area largely inhabited by Muslims (both those descended from ancient Jews that converted to Islam and other Muslims that had immigrated there over the centuries.
No. Zionism first developed as a concept in the 1880s, but was first articulared with the book Altneuland in 1902. It was legally recognized as British policy in 1917 and became internationally recognized by the League of Nations in 1922.