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1. He referred to a 1'17 document that was included in a letter sent by then British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to leader of the British Jewish Community, Walter Rothschild, expressing the backing of Britain, as a UN trustee power, for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. «The US president’s exclusion of the return of Palestinian refugees and his call for amending the armistice line to ensure annexation of Jewish settlements to Israel virtually derailed the Palestinian–Israeli negotiations before they started,» he said.