Geopolitics
The Balfour Declaration: Colonial Arrogance That Shaped a Century of Palestinian Suffering
The Balfour Declaration, authored by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917, promised a Jewish homeland in Palestine while disregarding its indigenous population. This colonial document, rooted in imperial arrogance and Orientalist prejudice, launched a century of dispossession and violence that continues to devastate Palestinian lives today.
