With more than 5,550 votes, the Balfour Declaration—a declaration passed by the British government in 1917 that favored establishing a Jewish state in Palestine—topped our list as the most momentous event of the past 1,000 years. One reader described the document as “the sole cause of the entire Middle East problems. Not only the Palestinian people are suffering but also the whole humanity is paying the price.”
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