Abbas spokesman: 'Balfour Declaration is the crime of the century'

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the official spokesman of Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, on Wednesday blasted the Balfour Declaration and called it “the crime of the century”.

The November 2, 1917, Balfour Declaration was sent by then-British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour and proclaimed Britain’s support for the establishment of a Jewish national home in then-Palestine.