The Balfour Declaration
A) specified the boundaries of the new state of Israel.
B) cautiously favored a “Jewish home” in Palestine, where 90 percent of the population was Arab.
C) assigned Syria and Lebanon to the French and Palestine and Mesopotamia (Iraq) to Britain.
D) planned a joint Arab-Jewish state.
E) was used by Britain to stop Arab nationalism, which threatened British interests in the area.
Ans: B
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