On November 2, 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour writes to Lord Walter Rothschild, who was a major figure in the Zionist movement:
Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
A complex and unstable political situation
1 November 2017, byThe proclamation of the independent republic of Catalonia on 27 October was exclusively symbolic, because it has not translated into any administrative act nor will to exercise authority in the territory.
