The Balfour Declaration

[Shusha]

RE: The Balfour Declaration
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,

This type of propaganda is only an attempt to lay some kind of "self-defense" foundation and pull on the emotion of justification.

The Arabs did it to themselves. Who knows what would have developed if Israel did not have to defend itself in the 1948 War of Independence.

The Arab armies entered Palestine because it was under attack by the Zionists.

"Under attack by Zionists" meaning, of course, the Jewish people establishing their national homeland in, you know, their homeland.

(COMMENT)

Anyone that looks at the San Remo agreement, and the follow-on Mandate, knows that the Allied Powers came to an agreement to put into effect ※→ the Balfour Declaration, adopting the idea of the establishment of a Jewish National Home. The Allied Powers envisioned that through the development of self-governing institutions that would benefit the interests of the Jewish population in Palestine, and with all Jews who are willing to assist, a Jewish National Home could be established.

Palestine was NOT attacked by the Jews. Not at all. The Allied Powers set the British Administration to the task of facilitating Jewish immigration, in co-operation with the Jewish Agency. The Jews were originally invited to build a Jewish National Home...

Most Respectfully,
R

OK, but the Mandate flopped. No independent state of any kind was established as it was charged to do. Then Resolution 181 flopped and did not partition Palestine.

The Zionists had nothing so they rolled their terrorist gangs across Palestine attacking and expelling Palestinian civilians. About half of the refugees were created before any Arab army entered Palestine so the refugees were not a result of the war. It was a planned ethnic cleansing. Then Israel expropriated the land left behind by the refugees.

I'll repeat Rocco's words and say: This type of propaganda is only an attempt to lay some kind of "self-defense" foundation and pull on the emotion of justification.

The war -- that is the civil war between the territory's Jewish population and the territory's Arab population -- began long before May of 1948. To pretend otherwise is sort of silly. Thus your diatribe about a one-sided "expulsion" of Arabs by Jews under (cough cough) peaceful circumstances prior to 1948 is nothing but a deliberate attempt to lay some kind of self defense foundation and pull on the emotion of justification.

 

[RoccoR]

[/quote][/indent]RE: The Balfour Declaration
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,

During today's brief meeting, Dr. Eduardo Morgan (Panama) said that this resolution of the Assembly merely "relieves responsibility. The Commission has not been dissolved. In fact the resolution of last November 29 has been implemented."

OK, but the Mandate flopped. No independent state of any kind was established as it was charged to do. Then Resolution 181 flopped and did not partition Palestine.

The Zionists had nothing so they rolled their terrorist gangs across Palestine attacking and expelling Palestinian civilians. About half of the refugees were created before any Arab army entered Palestine so the refugees were not a result of the war. It was a planned ethnic cleansing. Then Israel expropriated the land left behind by the refugees.

(COMMENT)

Yeah, Anyone can jumble these issues together in order to invoke confusion...

I think your allegations of "ethnic cleansing" is suspect and biased. I certainly believe that some one somewhere address the option of "ethnic cleansing;" but I think it was a minority opinion.

Most movement was a matter of ridding the Rear Area of Arab Fifth Columnist.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[P F Tinmore]

[/indent]RE: The Balfour Declaration
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,

During today's brief meeting, Dr. Eduardo Morgan (Panama) said that this resolution of the Assembly merely "relieves responsibility. The Commission has not been dissolved. In fact the resolution of last November 29 has been implemented."

OK, but the Mandate flopped. No independent state of any kind was established as it was charged to do. Then Resolution 181 flopped and did not partition Palestine.

The Zionists had nothing so they rolled their terrorist gangs across Palestine attacking and expelling Palestinian civilians. About half of the refugees were created before any Arab army entered Palestine so the refugees were not a result of the war. It was a planned ethnic cleansing. Then Israel expropriated the land left behind by the refugees.

(COMMENT)

Yeah, Anyone can jumble these issues together in order to invoke confusion...

I think your allegations of "ethnic cleansing" is suspect and biased. I certainly believe that some one somewhere address the option of "ethnic cleansing;" but I think it was a minority opinion.

Most movement was a matter of ridding the Rear Area of Arab Fifth Columnist.

Most Respectfully,
R[/QUOTE]
Unarmed farmers posed what kind of threat?

 

[Sixties Fan]

[/indent]RE: The Balfour Declaration
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,

During today's brief meeting, Dr. Eduardo Morgan (Panama) said that this resolution of the Assembly merely "relieves responsibility. The Commission has not been dissolved. In fact the resolution of last November 29 has been implemented."

OK, but the Mandate flopped. No independent state of any kind was established as it was charged to do. Then Resolution 181 flopped and did not partition Palestine.

The Zionists had nothing so they rolled their terrorist gangs across Palestine attacking and expelling Palestinian civilians. About half of the refugees were created before any Arab army entered Palestine so the refugees were not a result of the war. It was a planned ethnic cleansing. Then Israel expropriated the land left behind by the refugees.

(COMMENT)

Yeah, Anyone can jumble these issues together in order to invoke confusion...

I think your allegations of "ethnic cleansing" is suspect and biased. I certainly believe that some one somewhere address the option of "ethnic cleansing;" but I think it was a minority opinion.

Most movement was a matter of ridding the Rear Area of Arab Fifth Columnist.

Most Respectfully,
R

Unarmed farmers posed what kind of threat?[/QUOTE]
Yes, let us ask :

Unarmed Jews in Gaza in 1920 posed what kind of threat?

Unarmed Jews in TranJordan posed what threat in 1925?

Unarmed Jews in Hebron in 1929 posed what threat?


And just to give you a break, what unarmed Arab farmers are you talking about during the Balfour Declaration?

Because we are talking about Balfour, right, or have you moved the goal post to 1948, already, as always?

 

[P F Tinmore]

[/indent]RE: The Balfour Declaration
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,

During today's brief meeting, Dr. Eduardo Morgan (Panama) said that this resolution of the Assembly merely "relieves responsibility. The Commission has not been dissolved. In fact the resolution of last November 29 has been implemented."

OK, but the Mandate flopped. No independent state of any kind was established as it was charged to do. Then Resolution 181 flopped and did not partition Palestine.

The Zionists had nothing so they rolled their terrorist gangs across Palestine attacking and expelling Palestinian civilians. About half of the refugees were created before any Arab army entered Palestine so the refugees were not a result of the war. It was a planned ethnic cleansing. Then Israel expropriated the land left behind by the refugees.

(COMMENT)

Yeah, Anyone can jumble these issues together in order to invoke confusion...

I think your allegations of "ethnic cleansing" is suspect and biased. I certainly believe that some one somewhere address the option of "ethnic cleansing;" but I think it was a minority opinion.

Most movement was a matter of ridding the Rear Area of Arab Fifth Columnist.

Most Respectfully,
R

Unarmed farmers posed what kind of threat?

Yes, let us ask :

Unarmed Jews in Gaza in 1920 posed what kind of threat?

Unarmed Jews in TranJordan posed what threat in 1925?

Unarmed Jews in Hebron in 1929 posed what threat?


And just to give you a break, what unarmed Arab farmers are you talking about during the Balfour Declaration?

Because we are talking about Balfour, right, or have you moved the goal post to 1948, already, as always?[/QUOTE]
The Jews were never "unarmed." They worked under the cover of the British military.

 

[Hollie]

[/indent]RE: The Balfour Declaration
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,

During today's brief meeting, Dr. Eduardo Morgan (Panama) said that this resolution of the Assembly merely "relieves responsibility. The Commission has not been dissolved. In fact the resolution of last November 29 has been implemented."

OK, but the Mandate flopped. No independent state of any kind was established as it was charged to do. Then Resolution 181 flopped and did not partition Palestine.

The Zionists had nothing so they rolled their terrorist gangs across Palestine attacking and expelling Palestinian civilians. About half of the refugees were created before any Arab army entered Palestine so the refugees were not a result of the war. It was a planned ethnic cleansing. Then Israel expropriated the land left behind by the refugees.

(COMMENT)

Yeah, Anyone can jumble these issues together in order to invoke confusion...

I think your allegations of "ethnic cleansing" is suspect and biased. I certainly believe that some one somewhere address the option of "ethnic cleansing;" but I think it was a minority opinion.

Most movement was a matter of ridding the Rear Area of Arab Fifth Columnist.

Most Respectfully,
R

Unarmed farmers posed what kind of threat?

Yes, let us ask :

Unarmed Jews in Gaza in 1920 posed what kind of threat?

Unarmed Jews in TranJordan posed what threat in 1925?

Unarmed Jews in Hebron in 1929 posed what threat?


And just to give you a break, what unarmed Arab farmers are you talking about during the Balfour Declaration?

Because we are talking about Balfour, right, or have you moved the goal post to 1948, already, as always?

The Jews were never "unarmed." They worked under the cover of the British military.[/QUOTE]


By the standards of your usual loopy conspiracy theories, this one is less entertaining.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Part 1- "BALFOUR’S LEGACY: Confronting the Consequences"

 

[P F Tinmore]

Part 2- "BALFOUR’S LEGACY: Confronting the Consequences"

 

[P F Tinmore]

Part 3- "BALFOUR’S LEGACY: Confronting the Consequences"

 

[Hollie]

Part 3- "BALFOUR’S LEGACY: Confronting the Consequences"

Yes, the Balfour legacy is an uncomfortable truth for the Islamic Entity.

Israel was able to defend itself from the Islamic gee-had and defend itself in war of aggression waged by Arab states. In spite of the above, Israel transformed itself into a world-class economy.

The legacy of the Islamic Entity on the other hand is one of continuing failure.

That is not a legacy I would think you would want to support by chain-dumping YouTube videos.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Arab media are upset. Egypt's Youm7 said her statement "provokes Arabs."
Hanan Ashrawi on Saturday demanded not only that Britain apologize for the declaration and to immediately recognize a Palestinian state on the so-called 1967 borders, but that Britain should compensate the Palestinians for their suffering.
The Democratic Reform Movement of Fatah echoed Ashrawi's words, adding that the world must "submit to the principle that there is no peace, security and stability in this region of the world until the restoration of our people's rights, the first of which is the right to independence and the building of its state and its capital Jerusalem."
A handful of bored looking people make a half-hearted protest at the British embassy in Amman, Jordan.

An Egyptian site interviewed a few young people, none of whom had ever heard of the Balfour Declaration, even in university courses.

(full article online)

Arabs upset that Britain refuses to apologize for Balfour Declaration ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[Sixties Fan]

[It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. After thousands of people killed by the Arab Muslims, especially their own, in order to take a tiny piece of land, not theirs, which is not being run by Muslims. Lie, cheat, cry, harm and kill....in the name of Allah....against those fi...... Jews (those descendants of Apes and Pigs.....as the Muslims put it.....written in the Koran....a "holy" book....or not.......Islam = submission......let us never forget what Islam actually means. Thank you Christianity for creating Islam.

Submit Everyone....or there will be no peace ]


Britain has donated no less than £473,038,638.64 ($632,443,199) to various Palestinian causes in the last five years alone [UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office website], and will continue in 2021. In an ironic expression of gratitude, a group of Palestinians submitted a lawsuit to the Palestinian Authority court system against Britain for issuing the Balfour Declaration and for alleged “crimes” of British soldiers against the Palestinian people during the Mandate period.

While the lawsuit, which was submitted to a PA court, was initiated by ostensibly private individuals, its narrative entirely adopts the narrative of the PA: That the Balfour Declaration is the cause of Palestinian suffering:

“The lawsuit, which has a political impact and a media aspect, lays the responsibility on the government of Britain for the consequences of the Balfour Promise, which gave Palestine as a national homeland to the Jews and enabled the Zionist gangs to occupy Palestine, and the consequences that stem from its behavior that contradicts international rules, morals, and law.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 23, 2020]

As absurd as this trial may be, the PA courts are not only entertaining the lawsuit, but are also hearing evidence:

“A 100-year-old witness began to speak before the Nablus Trial Court about the cooperation between the Zionist gangs and the British Mandate army. He brought examples of the exchange of roles and transferring of camps full of weapons to the Zionist gangs in that period.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 18, 2020]

The attorney for the plaintiffs, Luay Abdo, explained that the goal of the suit is to persuade Britain to confess that the Balfour Declaration “destroyed the life of an entire Palestinian people and entity, whose place was taken by a racist colonialist entity.” He added:

“The lawsuit is legally solid and meets all the requirements, and therefore there is a good chance that it will succeed in the local courts… and afterwards will become a Palestinian legal ruling, after which the matter will be brought before the international courts, and specifically in the British arena.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 18, 2020]

As Palestinian Media Watch has exposed, the PA constantly attempts to rewrite history and say the Balfour Declaration is responsible for Israel's establishment, and blames their current situation on Britain.

Needless to say, this approach is far from being representative of reality.

(Full article online)

Palestinians sue Britain - as thanks for over half a billion dollars in aid | PMW Analysis

Palestinians rewrite history and sue Great Britain demanding it confess that the Balfour Declaration “destroyed the life of an entire Palestinian people.”

palwatch.org

 

[Lee Edwin]

You do realise you are posting to a dolt?

He's going to dodge the question.

I'm still awaiting your responses to questions from months ago when you went on 'vacation'... Funny that!

Oh lookie. Dodged the question as predicted.

Oh lookie... It still can't answer a question from several months ago because it got all butthurt then accuses!

Repeat the question.

You know, I would if it weren't so long that Shusha had to run for cover because any response would destroy her own belief!

It went something along the lines of "Oh shit, wait, I gotta go outta town on vacation or some shit" - Strange then that she continued to post throughout her "outta town vacation" whilst ignoring the question!

Free palestine? Fake Roman name for ancient Israel, later British name for the British Mandate which became modern Israel. Roman Empire is gone and Israel is free.

BTW, palestine map is based on a flag designed by the British: Not very authentic.

 

[Lee Edwin]

RE: The Balfour Declaration
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,

This type of propaganda is only an attempt to lay some kind of "self-defense" foundation and pull on the emotion of justification.

The Arabs did it to themselves. Who knows what would have developed if Israel did not have to defend itself in the 1948 War of Independence.

The Arab armies entered Palestine because it was under attack by the Zionists.

"Under attack by Zionists" meaning, of course, the Jewish people establishing their national homeland in, you know, their homeland.

(COMMENT)

Anyone that looks at the San Remo agreement, and the follow-on Mandate, knows that the Allied Powers came to an agreement to put into effect ※→ the Balfour Declaration, adopting the idea of the establishment of a Jewish National Home. The Allied Powers envisioned that through the development of self-governing institutions that would benefit the interests of the Jewish population in Palestine, and with all Jews who are willing to assist, a Jewish National Home could be established.

Palestine was NOT attacked by the Jews. Not at all. The Allied Powers set the British Administration to the task of facilitating Jewish immigration, in co-operation with the Jewish Agency. The Jews were originally invited to build a Jewish National Home...

Most Respectfully,
R

OK, but the Mandate flopped. No independent state of any kind was established as it was charged to do. Then Resolution 181 flopped and did not partition Palestine.

The Zionists had nothing so they rolled their terrorist gangs across Palestine attacking and expelling Palestinian civilians. About half of the refugees were created before any Arab army entered Palestine so the refugees were not a result of the war. It was a planned ethnic cleansing. Then Israel expropriated the land left behind by the refugees.

Israel was “reconstituted“ under the British Mandate, the purpose of the Mandate: The term “reconstitute” is actually in the text of the Mandate, signifying international recognition of ancient Israel’s existence. Now, you know.

 

[Lee Edwin]

RE: The Balfour Declaration
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,

This type of propaganda is only an attempt to lay some kind of "self-defense" foundation and pull on the emotion of justification.

The Arabs did it to themselves. Who knows what would have developed if Israel did not have to defend itself in the 1948 War of Independence.

The Arab armies entered Palestine because it was under attack by the Zionists.

"Under attack by Zionists" meaning, of course, the Jewish people establishing their national homeland in, you know, their homeland.

(COMMENT)

Anyone that looks at the San Remo agreement, and the follow-on Mandate, knows that the Allied Powers came to an agreement to put into effect ※→ the Balfour Declaration, adopting the idea of the establishment of a Jewish National Home. The Allied Powers envisioned that through the development of self-governing institutions that would benefit the interests of the Jewish population in Palestine, and with all Jews who are willing to assist, a Jewish National Home could be established.

Palestine was NOT attacked by the Jews. Not at all. The Allied Powers set the British Administration to the task of facilitating Jewish immigration, in co-operation with the Jewish Agency. The Jews were originally invited to build a Jewish National Home...

Most Respectfully,
R

OK, but the Mandate flopped. No independent state of any kind was established as it was charged to do. Then Resolution 181 flopped and did not partition Palestine.

The Zionists had nothing so they rolled their terrorist gangs across Palestine attacking and expelling Palestinian civilians. About half of the refugees were created before any Arab army entered Palestine so the refugees were not a result of the war. It was a planned ethnic cleansing. Then Israel expropriated the land left behind by the refugees.

I'll repeat Rocco's words and say: This type of propaganda is only an attempt to lay some kind of "self-defense" foundation and pull on the emotion of justification.

The war -- that is the civil war between the territory's Jewish population and the territory's Arab population -- began long before May of 1948. To pretend otherwise is sort of silly. Thus your diatribe about a one-sided "expulsion" of Arabs by Jews under (cough cough) peaceful circumstances prior to 1948 is nothing but a deliberate attempt to lay some kind of self defense foundation and pull on the emotion of justification.

Arabs themselves were responsible for Arabs fleeing in the ‘48 War, by imploring Arabs to leave in order to facilitate defeat of the Jews. They wuz wrong.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Of course, Said’s anti-colonialist narrative is conveniently selective. While focusing on Britain’s 1917 support for the creation of a Jewish National Home, it downplays later British proposals to establish an independent Arab Palestine, markedly in the 1937 Peel Commission partition plan that recommended the establishment of such a state on the majority of Mandatory Palestine; and again in the Palestine White Paper of 1939, when the British called for the creation of an Arab Palestine on all the territory of the Mandate (proposals rejected by the Palestinian leadership for not going far enough to meet its maximalist demands).

Yet not only do Said’s disciples choose to overlook British benevolence toward the Palestinians; they all but ignore that the Jews ended up being primary victims of Britain’s policies. For as the Nazis were beginning their march across Europe, “perfidious Albion” violated its commitments under the League of Nations’ mandate and locked the gates of the Jewish National Home to European Jews facing Hitler’s “Final Solution.”

In the ultimate expression of cynical realpolitik, Whitehall knew that the Jews had no alternative but to support Britain in the upcoming conflict with Nazi Germany, while the loyalty of the Arabs to the Allied cause was in question. Britain needed to ensure control of the Suez Canal, protect the Middle East oil fields, and maintain its support across the Moslem world (including the loyalty of millions of Muslims in the British Raj), and those British interests demanded the Arabs be appeased.

In The Revolt, Menachem Begin’s account of the Irgun’s struggle against the British Mandate, the man who went on to become Israel’s sixth prime minister places indirect responsibility for the Holocaust on the British. Begin argued that by closing Mandatory Palestine to the millions of Jews desperate to flee the Nazi inferno, Britain helped seal their fate.

During this horrific period in Jewish history, far from being the beneficiaries of British largesse, the Jews of Mandatory Palestine were forced to fight for their national freedom.

In the final years of the Mandate, the Jewish underground conducted an armed struggle against British rule, targeting the Mandatory regime and its British personnel. Most famously, Begin’s Irgun conducted a devastating attack in July 1946 on the Mandate Government Secretariat and British Armed Forces Headquarters located at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel.

When the armies of seven Arab states invaded the territory of Mandatory Palestine in 1948 to destroy the Jewish state at birth, those Arab forces were armed with British weapons, and in the case of Trans-Jordan’s Arab Legion, commanded by British officers. There was even a dogfight in the skies over Sinai between the RAF and the newly established Israel Air Force (the Israeli pilots were victorious).

In the early years following independence, Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, feared what he believed to be the very real prospect of British military action against the Jewish state on behalf of the Arabs.

Author Amos Oz captured the spirit of the time in his autobiographical A Tale of Love and Darkness. Emblematically, Oz described how as a boy growing up in Jerusalem he built a toy rocket in the back yard of his apartment block, threatening to launch the fictitious missile against London unless King George VI reversed Britain’s anti-Jewish stance.

Proponents of the Said thesis deride the Jewish struggle for statehood. For them, the State of Israel will forever be an illegitimate European implant, and the Balfour Declaration’s endorsement of a Jewish National Home camouflage for a nefarious anti-Arab imperial conspiracy. The truth is very different.

In the long history of the British Empire, there were many occurrences over which modern-day Brits are justifiably ashamed. The Balfour Declaration does not fall into that category.

Like the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that sought to eliminate a great injustice, the Balfour Declaration expressed support for the legitimate national aspirations of a long-persecuted people. All Britons should be proud of that. That Britain later reneged on its commitments to the Jews is, of course, quite another matter.

(full article online)

Balfour Declaration, Palestinian weaponization of post-colonial guilt

In the long history of the British Empire, there were many occurrences over which modern-day Brits are justifiably ashamed. The Balfour Declaration does not fall into that category.

www.jpost.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

As Palestinian Media Watch has shown, every year the PA and its institutions mark November 2nd with a comprehensive diatribe against the declaration. This year, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas issued a new “presidential decree” in which he ordered that the “national flag” be flown at half-mast on all the PA governmental buildings, including embassies and representative offices abroad. According to the official PA news agency WAFA, the aim of lowering the flag is to remind “the world in general and the United Kingdom in particular of the suffering of the Palestinian people and their rights to achieve independence, statehood and self-determination.” [Oct. 10, 2021] Last year, the PA courts held a trial against the UK government demanding that it be held accountable for the declaration and its consequences.

Unsurprisingly, the PA never mentions that prior to 1917, much of the Middle East and other regions were part of the Ottoman/Turkish Empire for 400 years. They never mention that an independent “State of Palestine” never existed. They similarly do not mention that the Balfour Declaration was not merely a British whim, but rather a decision adopted and ratified by the international community at the San Remo Conference in 1920. The PA also never mentions that the Declaration was also adopted by the League of Nations in the 1922 Mandate for Palestine. At that time, “Palestine” included both Israel (including Judea and Samaria) and Jordan.

While pretending to the international community that Israel only has to withdraw from the areas it captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War, and that this will be sufficient to achieve peace, the reality is that every day the PA further intensifies the anti-Israel propaganda and brainwashing of the Palestinian population. For the PA, only the cancellation of the Balfour Declaration and the undoing of its consequences – i.e. the destruction of Israel – will suffice.

To understand the central place of the Balfour Declaration in PA ideology read PMW’s op-ed: “Had there been no Balfour Declaration, the PA would have had to invent it.”

(full article online)

No peace until Israel destroyed! - The PA on the 104th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration | PMW Analysis

Fatah: “The Balfour Promise – a promise from one who has no ownership to one who has no right. Lest we forget!!”

palwatch.org

 

[Sixties Fan]

Leaders from Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, the DFLP and the PLO wrote a letter to Queen Elizabeth II demanding that she "wash away the shame of the fateful Balfour Declaration."

Islamic Jihad leader Ahmed Al-Mudallal described the Balfour Declaration as a big sin that will continue to shame Britain as long as Israel exists.

The terror leader whose group is proud of murdering hundreds of Jews says that the whole world is experiencing "instability and insecurity" as a result of "the continuation of this occupation caused by the Balfour Declaration."

Member of the Central Committee of the murderous Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Iyad Awadallah, said that the declaration wa a "crime against humanity."

A leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, Mahmoud Khalaf, said, "Britain, with this promise, has made a historical mistake, and it is time for it to atone for it, admit its guilt and apologize to the Palestinian people for giving the land of Palestine to the Jews to establish an alleged state on it." He added: "For 104 years we have been striving for the end of the occupation and the enjoyment of the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital."

His knowledge of history is a little lacking.

A member of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Tayseer Khaled, said, "The British promise is fundamentally invalid" and called for launching the 'Palestinian Holocaust' museum project "in order to break the silence of the international community on the crimes committed by the British occupation on Palestine and its Zionist colonial tool."

I'm not sure if these terrorist leaders broke out in a chorus of "Kaybar, Khaybar al-Yahud" after expressing their concern for human rights and fairness.

Terrorist organizations write letter to Queen Elizabeth to rescind the Balfour Declaration, because it is immoral

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Today is the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, where Great Britain announced its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.

As with every year, the Palestinians are marking the day with mourning. PA president Abbasinstructed all flags to be flown at half-mastevery November 2. Palestinians got the secretary general of the Arab League to issue his annual statement calling on Great Britain to "correct this historical mistake and assume its historical, legal and moral responsibility by offering an apology to the Palestinian people and recognizing the Palestinian state on the June 4, 1967 lines with its capital East Jerusalem."

They like to pretend that the Balfour Declaration is the source of their problems.

But it was just a letter. It wasn't a legal obligation.

What happened afterwards is arguably more important.

It was endorsed by the French and Italian governments, as well as the United States. It was incorporated into the San Remo Resolution in 1920. Finally, it was then incorporated into the Mandate for Palestine by the League of Nations.

That's when it became international law to support Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people.

Interestingly, the Arab opposition to the Mandate was not only against the concept of a Jewish homeland, but also against the concept that Palestine was a political entity of its own rather than part of Syria. (Of course, they also insisted that Jewish immigration be stopped totally.)

There were years of work by Zionists to turn Balfour from a vague statement of intent into international law. That is part of what gives Israel its legitimacy under international law today.

When the Palestinians say they want to reverse Balfour, they are saying they want to erase Israel.

The Mandate's incorporation of Balfour is also the source of Israel's legal claims to the entire area under the British mandate. Nothing that happened since then has superseded the Jewish national claim to Judea and Samaria.

The Balfour Declaration didn't legally mean much until it was supported by the international community

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

The 315-page scholarly, yet accessible, work unpacks the different twists and turns of Jewish and world history in the 18th and 19th centuries as they led — individually and jointly — to the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, in which a major world power recognized for the first time the right of the Jewish people to a homeland in Palestine.

Arthur Balfour, and the Balfour Declaration. (Wikipedia)
In a recent interview with The Times of Israel from Toronto, his home since 1970, Goldstein lamented the lack of knowledge about the Balfour Declaration, not only among Israel’s younger generation but also among academics.

“And those who do write about the Balfour Declaration tend to do so only in light of the events that came after it, in terms of World War II and also the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Goldstein said.

Goldstein meticulously demonstrates how the national interests of the countries involved in World War I concurred, at least at the time, with the aspirations of the strengthening Zionist movement.

Throughout the book, Goldstein likens the process to precision clockwork.

“Each element, regardless of shape or size, played an essential part in the functioning of the whole, while the absence of one of them would have altered the outcome of the entire process,” he writes in the book’s introduction.

The author devotes chapters to each of the various pieces and delves into the motivations — and secret machinations — of the British Empire as it vied for power in the Middle East with other European powers and the Ottomans.

“The Jews were crushed between the two tectonic forces of the British Empire’s geopolitical interests and the Islamic world,” he said.

In his book, Goldstein, also shows how the United States’ entry into WWI in April 1917 turned the tide for the Allies and had a major positive impact on the diplomatic process eventually leading to the Balfour Declaratio

(full article online)

Holocaust survivor publishes PhD dissertation on ‘serendipity’ of Balfour

Paul Goldstein, whose studies were interrupted in WWII, became one of the oldest doctoral recipients in the world when he graduated last year from Israel's Ariel University

www.timesofisrael.com