FACT CHECK · 1948, THE MANDATE AND PARTITION
Claim: Nobody backed Balfour except Britain
FALSETHE ANSWER
Serbia did. On 27 Dec 1917 Milenko Vesnic, head of Serbia's US mission, wrote Capt. David Albala backing it: 'resuscitating their beloved country in Palestine'. First government after Britain.
SOURCE
Wikipedia, David Albala; Jerusalem Post, David Albala, the Serbian warrior Zionist hero
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