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What is the connection between the Zionist movement and the Balfour declaration?

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The zionist movement was the movement for a separate Jewish state due to a rabid outbreak of anti semitism. The Balfour Declaration 1917 was a promise from the British PM Balfour that there would be a separate Jewish state somewhere in Palestine.
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