Story Highlights. 1  Range for diseases caused by ticks and mosquitoes is expanding. 2  Health officials see spread of brain-eating amoeba. 3  Climate not the only factor spreading the illnesses, experts say, but it contributes.
The Balfour Declaration was a single paragraph in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It read:
The Balfour Declaration anticipated a world regulated by a consortium of principal powersâthe same world that, 30 years later, would pass a UN resolution legitimating the establishment of a Jewish stateâ¦.The poetic simplicity of the Balfour Declaration resides in its presumption that a home for the Jews in their land needs no justification.