1920 Lord Balfour on Jewish Historical Connection to Palestine
“And I hope that, remembering all that, they will not grudge that small niche, for it is not more geographically in the former Arab territories than a niche – being given to the people who for all these hundreds of years have been separated from it, but who surely have a title to develop on their own lines in the land of their forefathers.”
Source: 93, pp. 166 –67; 2, p. 150.