[ganesha]

The Balfour declaration was not without conditions. It had three parts. The first part stated "His majesties government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object."
The second part said "It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine."
The third part said "The rights and political status enjoyed by the Jews in any other country shall not be prejudiced by the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."

[monkeyshine]

Not that any of it really matters. Nations are born usually in the same way -- by conquest, war, revolution. If people didn't honor these treaties, it wouldn't be the first time... or the last.