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Palestinian leaders: Britain must apologise for Balfour, and make things right
PALESTINIAN leaders marked yesterday’s centenary of the Balfour Declaration by demanding that Britain take responsibility for the Israeli occupation of their homeland.
Thousands of people attended protests across the occupied territories to commemorate then foreign secretary Arthur Balfour’s promise that Britain would help create a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then a part of the Ottoman empire.
A major demonstration was held in Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority, with thousands marching to the British consulate.
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