It was in 1917. in return for international Jewish support for the Allied cause to make "the world safe for democracy" that Great Britain issued the Balfour Declaration favoring establishment in Palestine "of a national home for the Jewish people." Five years later. in 1922. Great Britains allies. which of course included the United States. approved the Balfour Declaration. and it was incorporated into the League of Nations mandate for Palestine. It is worthy of note that in 1944. the Congress of the United States called for unlimited Jewish immigration into Palestine and the reconstitution of the Holy Land as a Jewish commonwealth so that it could continue to be a haven for poor. persecuted. and homeless Jews. just as it had been for those who were fortunate enough to have somehow escaped from the German Nazi concentration camps with their gas and torture chambers of planned total extermination and brutal murders. Today. we here in the Congress of the United States are glad to take full cognizance of the Independence Day of Israel. According to our calendar. it was on May 14. 1948. that the new State of Israel was reborn.
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