The Holocaust defeated a 1917 British document that favored the creation of the Jewish state in Palestine as the worst idea of the millennium, according to an Internet poll. The Holocaust’s overwhelming victory in the MSNBC.com poll came after the Balfour Declaration had jumped to an early lead.
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