The Balfour Declaration

[The Sage of Main Street]

A new permanent exhibition highlights the British PM's unflinching support for the Jewish state -- even under heavy pressure from his government

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Ahead of Balfour 100, UK enshrines Churchill’s headstrong case for Israel

Sense Against Simian

Some of us think Churchill was a great man and will be convinced by his support of them that the Israelis must be right. Other posters think Osama bin Laden was a great man.

 

[Sixties Fan]

A new permanent exhibition highlights the British PM's unflinching support for the Jewish state -- even under heavy pressure from his government

(full article online)

Ahead of Balfour 100, UK enshrines Churchill’s headstrong case for Israel

Sense Against Simian

Some of us think Churchill was a great man and will be convinced by his support of them that the Israelis must be right. Other posters think Osama bin Laden was a great man.

When one needs to compare the head of a democratic nation with a terrorist of no Nation except the Islamic nation........and head of nothing but murderers, or thousands of civilian lives.......

Enough said....

 

[Sixties Fan]

Balfour Declaration: 'State' or 'Homeland'? | HonestReporting

 

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Harry's Place » An open letter to support the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

 

[Sixties Fan]

That, of course, is an inaccurate representation of events. The document published on November 2nd 1917 was in fact the end product of several months of drafts, revisions and consultations, as the Balfour 100 website explains:

“Balfour’s November 1917 typewritten letter to Rothschild was ‎drafted after a great deal of back-and-forth within Lloyd George’s government and considerable input by Zionist leaders led by Nahum Sokolow (1859-1936) and Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952); and by British Jews adamantly opposed to Zionism.

On June 13, 1917 Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour met with Lord Walter Rothschild, leader of the British Jewish community, and Zionist statesman Chaim Weizmann and suggested they submit a draft document encapsulating their hopes for Palestine that he could submit for Cabinet discussion.

The formula which the Zionists preferred was submitted by Rothschild to Balfour on July 18, 1917.

But the to-and-fro over the letter’s wording continued. […]

On October 6, 1917 the War Cabinet decided to send out the latest draft text to eight Jews—four anti-Zionists and four Zionists—for comment. The cover letter acknowledged that “in view of the divergence of opinion expressed on the subject by the Jews themselves,” the Government “would like to receive in writing the views of representative Jewish leaders, both Zionists and non-Zionists.””

One of the four anti-Zionists was Sir Philip Magnus, whose response can be found in the National Library of Israel. Also on October 6th 1917, the British sought the opinion of the US president Woodrow Wilson and, as Martin Kramer documents, the French government had also expressed its approval for “the renaissance of the Jewish nationality [nationalité juive] in that land from which the people of Israel were exiled so many centuries ago” in June 1917 in the Cambon letter.

In short, the Balfour Declaration had been a ‘work in progress’ for at least five months before the ANZAC forces won the Battle of Beersheba and the BBC’s claim that the victory against the Ottomans “led to” Lord Rothschild’s letter is historically inaccurate and misleading to audiences.

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Inaccurate BBC Balfour Declaration claim misleads audiences

 

[P F Tinmore]

 

[Hollie]

It would be appropriate for the Arabs-Moslems to apologize for their failures and ineptitudes, maybe return the stolen welfare fraud
money.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Too many articles about Balfour give Great Britain credit for creating Israel, just like articles at the end of this month will credit the UN partition plan 70 years ago with creating Israel. Neither is true. Israel was created through the sweat and blood and hard work and foresight of a group of Jews who saw how important it was to have a Jewish state. They used international instruments to help them but the entire enterprise was created, sustained and completed by Jews alone, to rebuild the Jewish state that Jews have yearned for over two millennia.

The contrast with Palestinianism is striking. Palestinians haven't been building institutions - they have been sitting back and letting the world community build them. They haven't been creating an effective government - they have been taking NGO money to create their plans. Their leaders aren't craving the responsibility behind building a real state - they are being dragged, kicking and screaming, into doing the bare minimum to be take seriously.

Most importantly, Palestinianism is not nationalism in the sense that they want to live free and independently. It is anti-nationalism. because its entire purpose is the destruction of the Jewish state, not the building of another Arab state. if it wasn't for Israel the Palestinians would happily have become Jordanians and Syrians and Egyptians, depending on how history would have played out. There was certainly no Palestinian government in waiting in 1947. All the major Palestinian leaders in the 1930s had been involved in violence and incitement, not nation-building like the Jewish leaders were.

The Balfour Declaration didn't create Israel and it didn't destroy "Palestine." Jewish genius and creativity and hard work created Israel, and Palestinian hate, rejectionism and antisemitism is what ensured - and continues to ensure - that there will never be a viable, independent Palestinian state.

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Zionist Jews created modern Israel, not Balfour ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[danielpalos]

They should have created Judea.

 

[Sixties Fan]

They should have created Judea.

They created what they had the right to create, minus TransJordan which was stolen in 1925.

They called it what they had the right to call it. Israel.
Because it has always been, regardless of the Greek name change, or the Roman name change, ISRAEL.

Thanks for caring so much about the Jewish nation and what they should be called, and where they should live, if anywhere at all.

 

[Sixties Fan]

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/isr...exhibition-showing-at-the-knesset/2017/11/02/

 

[danielpalos]

They should have created Judea.

They created what they had the right to create, minus TransJordan which was stolen in 1925.

They called it what they had the right to call it. Israel.
Because it has always been, regardless of the Greek name change, or the Roman name change, ISRAEL.

Thanks for caring so much about the Jewish nation and what they should be called, and where they should live, if anywhere at all.

Israel and Israelites. There are no Judeans without Judea.

 

[Sixties Fan]

They should have created Judea.

They created what they had the right to create, minus TransJordan which was stolen in 1925.

They called it what they had the right to call it. Israel.
Because it has always been, regardless of the Greek name change, or the Roman name change, ISRAEL.

Thanks for caring so much about the Jewish nation and what they should be called, and where they should live, if anywhere at all.

Israel and Israelites. There are no Judeans without Judea.

It was all one Nation. Israel which split into Israel and Judah.
Why are you playing this useless gave with all the names the Jews have had in the past, and the name of their Nation/lands?

What in the world could be your purpose? Pray tell.

 

[danielpalos]

They should have created Judea.

They created what they had the right to create, minus TransJordan which was stolen in 1925.

They called it what they had the right to call it. Israel.
Because it has always been, regardless of the Greek name change, or the Roman name change, ISRAEL.

Thanks for caring so much about the Jewish nation and what they should be called, and where they should live, if anywhere at all.

Israel and Israelites. There are no Judeans without Judea.

It was all one Nation. Israel which split into Israel and Judah.
Why are you playing this useless gave with all the names the Jews have had in the past, and the name of their Nation/lands?

What in the world could be your purpose? Pray tell.

There simply are no Judeans in modern times. Only Israel and Israelites.

 

[Shusha]

They should have created Judea.

They created what they had the right to create, minus TransJordan which was stolen in 1925.

They called it what they had the right to call it. Israel.
Because it has always been, regardless of the Greek name change, or the Roman name change, ISRAEL.

Thanks for caring so much about the Jewish nation and what they should be called, and where they should live, if anywhere at all.

Israel and Israelites. There are no Judeans without Judea.

It was all one Nation. Israel which split into Israel and Judah.
Why are you playing this useless gave with all the names the Jews have had in the past, and the name of their Nation/lands?

What in the world could be your purpose? Pray tell.

Its just another play on the old "real" Jews vs. "synthetic" Jews canard. Sigh.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Bipartisan Senate resolution calls for recognition of 100th anniversary of signing of Balfour Declaration, affirms US support for Israel.

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Congress to recognize centenary of Balfour Declaration

 

[Sixties Fan]

The London Jewish Chronicle which lauded the Balfour Declaration, also made a poignant observation in 1917. “Neither England, nor France, nor the United States, can give Palestine to the Jewish people, it must be desired, it must be sought for, it must be earned.”

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Reflections on the Balfour Declaration

 

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http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/a-century-of-missed-opportunities/

 

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Israel given birth thanks to international efforts

 

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The True Story Behind the Balfour Declaration