Britain Sold #Palestine to Pay Its WWI Debt. The Balfour Declaration Was a Banking Deal! a 27 minutes video from "Uncover History" YouTube channel In 1917, Britain wrote a 67-word letter that promised a land it didn't own, to a people who didn't live there, over the heads of those who did. That letter — the Balfour Declaration — is still reshaping the world today. But the story you've been told leaves out the most important part. By 1917