#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

7070.367 - 7094.015 Steven Bonnell (Destiny)

Most people understood that in Britain and among the Zionists and among the Arabs. But the British declared the Balfour Declaration, or issued the Balfour Declaration, not only because of imperial self-interest, and this is what you're basically saying. They had imperial interests, a buffer state which would protect the Suez Canal from the East. the British also were motivated by idealism.