On 2 November, after the US and France had approved the plan, the Balfour Declaration was issued, stating that 'His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, provided this did not 'prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine' - in other words, the Palestinian Arabs who were the overwhelming majority of inhabitants. The failure to even name them was a revealing mistake. The words were carefully negotiated - 'a home' not a state, in Palestine not of Palestine.
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Palestine
6 dated highlights · 1917 – 1993
19172 Nov 1917
194814 May 1948
Britain ended its Palentine mandate.
1964
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was established
1969
Yasser Arafat was elected the PLO chairman
1987Dec 1987
First Intifada (meaning ‘shaking-off’ or ‘trembling’) by the Palestinians
This was not done or started by the PLO. It was done by the people of Palestine who were constantly under “siege” by Israel. It was a people’s movement.
199313 Sep 1993
The ‘Declaration of Principles on Palestine Self-Rule’ aka Osla Accords was signed. PLO recognised Israel’s right to exist, and Israelis simply recognised the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinian people