In this episode, we are dissecting one of the most famous documents in Israeli history – the Balfour Declaration – and asking what made this what makes a 117-word letter so important and so controversial. Why did it take 30 years, until the United Nations passed UN Resolution 181, for a Jewish state to finally be established? Why was the Balfour Declaration so controversial? Why was it written so ambiguously and did the British even have the right to promise the Jews a homeland in British Mandate Palestine?