When I mentioned this to George, he smiled, and said to me: ‘You know, Tim, that the Cabinet papers from the time are now available under the fifty-year rule?’ I said: ‘No, I didn’t know.’ He continued (I cannot at this distance of time remember his exact words): ‘Well, what Balfour actually said in Cabinet discussion was different from what is in the declaration. He said something like this: “Zionism is a historical inevitability, besides which the rights of the Palestinians are of no account.”’
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