Articles by Simon Mabon

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A Century On, the Balfour Declaration Still Shapes Palestinians’ Everyday Lives
Simon Mabon - The Conversation, 6 Nov 2017

With a simple 67-word letter sent on November 2, 1917, the British foreign secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, irrevocably changed the political and geographic landscape of the Middle East. The Balfour Declaration may be a century old, but its effects are as firmly entrenched as ever. In the corridors of Whitehall, Britain’s colonial legacy is a ghost – but for Palestinians, it remains a fact of life.

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