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 | | According to Abba Eban, World Jewry as a kind of Magna Carta greeted the Balfour Declaration. It was, in reality, a cautious statement by the British government, favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews, without prejudice to the rights (civil and religious) of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine. |
 | | Previously to the Balfour Declaration, the British government had offered Uganda territory in British East Africa for a Jewish homeland. The Zionist congress meeting at the time initially accepted the British offered, but later decided against it. |
 | | World War I ended in 1918. As immigration to the Untied States decreased significantly after the war, Aliyah to Palestine increased. Between 1919 and 1926 almost 100,000 Jews immigrated to a Palestine that was a demoralized, impoverished community at the time. |
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