Synopsis
Jane Corbin explores whether the aspirations of The Balfour Declaration were doomed to inevitable failure. And is there hope of a peaceful solution in the Holy Land.
- Programme: This World
- Episode: The Balfour Declaration: Britain's Promise to the Holy Land
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2017
- History
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