For example, as here: In “Flawed Foundations: The Balfour
Declaration and the Palestine Mandate,” (Chapter 1) James Renton
offers a highly nuanced analysis of the 1917 statement; he
emphasizes that the majority of British policy makers viewed the
document as a wartime measure (17-18) and that most did not, at
the time, envisage it as laying the foundations for an actual
Jewish state. However the reference to the “native population”
rather than specifically naming the Palestinians left them at a
distinct disadvantage in future negotiations. Since the Balfour
Declaration did not specifically mention the Palestinians
(citing only the “non-Jewish population”) they were subsequently
viewed as a “disparate series of peoples” (35) and were
therefore little considered or often ignored altogether. The
recently published full-length book, The Balfour Declaration
(2010), by Jonathan Schneer, provides a further expansion on the
many motivations for and impacts of the 1917 Balfour statement.
Susan Pedersen describes the r