The Balfour Declaration

[P F Tinmore]

In his speech, Khalidi argued that the Balfour Declaration “amounted to a declaration of war by the British Empire on the indigenous population of the land it was promising to the Jewish people as a national homeland.”

Palestine was never British territory. They had no right to say anything about it.

 

[rylah]

The "stars would have been in better alignment for true Judeans, if a State of Judah had been created instead of a State of Israel. And, the Kingdom of Judah, was just one tribe, as is claimed by some; why would eleven other tribes want to claim to be subscribers to the philosophy of some Other tribe, and not their own?

The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew: מַמְלֶכֶת יְהוּדָה‎, Mamlekhet Yehudāh) was an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant. The Hebrew Bible depicts it as the successor to a United Monarchy, but historians are divided about the veracity of this account. In the 10th and early 9th centuries BCE the territory of Judah appears to have been sparsely populated, limited to small rural settlements, most of them unfortified.[9] Jerusalem, the kingdom's capital, likely did not emerge as a significant administrative centre until the end of the 8th century; prior to this archaeological evidence suggests its population was too small to sustain a viable kingdom.[10] In the 7th century its population increased greatly, prospering under Assyrian vassalage (despite Hezekiah's revolt against the Assyrian king Sennacherib[11]), but in 605 the Assyrian Empire was defeated, and the ensuing competition between the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt and the Neo-Babylonian Empire for control of the Eastern Mediterranean led to the destruction of the kingdom in a series of campaigns between 597 and 582, the deportation of the elite of the community, and the incorporation of Judah into a province of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

Again why didn't the Jews separate into the 4 tribes during the 2000 years is a whole other subject.
Why the Levites still call themselves Jews... because it all revolves around the Davidic line and Zion, and because whenever Jews lived, other people always reminded them of their foreignness.

Don't look into the Balfour Declaration through the eyes of modern politics, learn a little history of what happened prior to it, in Europe, North Africa and Palestine

 

[danielpalos]

Ok; how about, Israelis, and the Israelites?

 

[rylah]

The right wing only has a problem with, Jewdeans, not Hebrews.

What you call 'right wing' is a term of the French Revolution, and a changing fashion.
Today it seems that the Left has more problems with Jews. It doesn't matter how You translate it into contemporary political terms.
And it doesn't matter how You translate Israel or the Jewish nation into foreign languages. Jews were called Hebrews in many of the countries they fled. They also fled countries where they were called Judeans, and where they were given emancipation. Wasn't the issue.

And translation wouldn't change the issue of Arab pogroms in Palestine.
Eventually Balfour helped solve many of the problems that Jews had in Palestine as in Europe.

nope; the right wing is too clueless and Causeless to understand the difference.

Right wing, Left, Arabs, Europe, Africa, Palestine -during the pogroms it didn't matter.

 

[danielpalos]

The Nazis has a problem with, Judeans, not Israelites.

 

[rylah]

Ok; how about, Israelis, and the Israelites?

Balfour Declaration anything?

 

[Sixties Fan]

In his speech, Khalidi argued that the Balfour Declaration “amounted to a declaration of war by the British Empire on the indigenous population of the land it was promising to the Jewish people as a national homeland.”

Palestine was never British territory. They had no right to say anything about it.

They conquered in a war just as the Turkish Ottomans did.

End of story.

 

[Hollie]

In his speech, Khalidi argued that the Balfour Declaration “amounted to a declaration of war by the British Empire on the indigenous population of the land it was promising to the Jewish people as a national homeland.”

Palestine was never British territory. They had no right to say anything about it.

Actually, they did.

 

[Shusha]

Palestine was never British territory. They had no right to say anything about it.

The international community has the right to support or not support independence movements by various peoples. (For example, recognizing Palestine as a State.)

That's all the Balfour Declaration is.

 

[Sixties Fan]

The White Paper also stated, explicitly, that Jews cannot purchase land in much of Palestine from Arabs. making antisemitism official British government policy.

The authors of the paper knew very well every Jew they barred from immigrating to Palestine was likely to be murdered. Liberal MP James Rothschild stated during the parliamentary debate that "for the majority of the Jews who go to Palestine it is a question of migration or of physical extinction".

Even the "League of Nations commission held that the White Paper was in conflict with the terms of the Mandate."

In the end, the British didn't even admit the full 75,000 Jews that the White Paper allowed.

Six million were murdered. Tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, would have been saved if it wasn't for the British White Paper. The disgusting policy of appeasement of what the White Paper literally called "Arab terrorists" - led to the deaths of untold numbers of Jews.

Balfour (and San Remo) should have saved much of European Jewry. The White Paper abrogated Balfour, and violated basic human rights, to kow-tow to the threat of Arab terrorism.

If anyone is going to ask for apologies from the British, it should be the Jewish people for the immoral policy that sentenced hundreds of thousands of our relatives to death.

(full article online)

The 1939 White Paper, not Balfour Declaration, is the document that the British really DO need to apologize for ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[P F Tinmore]

In his speech, Khalidi argued that the Balfour Declaration “amounted to a declaration of war by the British Empire on the indigenous population of the land it was promising to the Jewish people as a national homeland.”

Palestine was never British territory. They had no right to say anything about it.

They conquered in a war just as the Turkish Ottomans did.

End of story.

And then the territory was ceded to Palestine. Britain was not the recipient.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Palestine was never British territory. They had no right to say anything about it.

The international community has the right to support or not support independence movements by various peoples. (For example, recognizing Palestine as a State.)

That's all the Balfour Declaration is.

Nobody has the right to grab territory that belongs to someone else.

 

[Hollie]

Palestine was never British territory. They had no right to say anything about it.

The international community has the right to support or not support independence movements by various peoples. (For example, recognizing Palestine as a State.)

That's all the Balfour Declaration is.

Nobody has the right to grab territory that belongs to someone else.

.... unless the grabbing is done in furtherance of the Islamist colonial project.

 

[abi]

The international community has the right to support or not support independence movements by various peoples. (For example, recognizing Palestine as a State.)

That's all the Balfour Declaration is.

Oy vey iz mir, learn history before attempting to discuss it. Your above statement is ludicrous. This had nothing to do with the international community. England, basically deeded Palestine to a people primarily from Europe. It was written to "Lord" Rothschild and was pushed upon the British government through his agent, Chaim Weizmann.

.... unless the grabbing is done in furtherance of the Islamist colonial project.

If you acknowledge it is not right to grab land in furtherance of a colonial project, then why does it matter who the perpetrators are? Is it fair to say that this is wrong whether done by Muslims, Christians, Jews or any group for that matter?

 

[thetor]

The right wing only has a problem with, Jewdeans, not Hebrews.

What you call 'right wing' is a term of the French Revolution, and a changing fashion.
Today it seems that the Left has more problems with Jews. It doesn't matter how You translate it into contemporary political terms.
And it doesn't matter how You translate Israel or the Jewish nation into foreign languages. Jews were called Hebrews in many of the countries they fled. They also fled countries where they were called Judeans, and where they were given emancipation. Wasn't the issue.

And translation wouldn't change the issue of Arab pogroms in Palestine.
Eventually Balfour helped solve many of the problems that Jews had in Palestine as in Europe.

Balfour was an Asshole Zionist Stooge,as you well know,his declaration was NONE BINDING get your facts right

 

[thetor]

Palestine was never British territory. They had no right to say anything about it.

The international community has the right to support or not support independence movements by various peoples. (For example, recognizing Palestine as a State.)

That's all the Balfour Declaration is.

Completely WRONG

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Rather than see the Balfour Declaration as a commitment to Jewish self-determination, Black frames it as the origin of a conflict and the end of Palestinian aspirations.

In reality, it was not the Balfour Declaration that brought about the situation of today’s Palestinians or even those from 1948. Palestinian and Arab rejectionism has thwarted all attempts over the years to reach an amicable arrangement that could have seen a Palestinian state co-existing side by side with a Jewish one.

(full article online)

Balfour Declaration: Haters Declare War | HonestReporting

This is NONSENCE WHY?...because The Palestinians felt that Why Should they give any Territory to a Load of Illegal Zionist Migrants...The Jews in there position would never have allowed Palestinians any Land..........How can you REJECT SOMETHING YOU NEVER AGREED TO IN THE FIRST PLACE???

Sorry Sixties you are on the wrong track,incidentally what Land have Israel stolen since 1948...Plenty are they returning it to the Palestinians,FCUK ARE THEY

You are blaming THE disposessed,and it's sickening and SHAMEFUL

Swishy Swastickers

Hitler lost; get over it. Defending the rabid Arab rabble is typical of the way Judeophobes pollute civilization. You never stand up to the clear and present bosses, so you're nothing but cowards who have to cover up your gutlessness by convincing yourselves that a secret group is controlling everybody behind the scenes. Man up and take the upper class down.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The international community has the right to support or not support independence movements by various peoples. (For example, recognizing Palestine as a State.)

That's all the Balfour Declaration is.

Oy vey iz mir, learn history before attempting to discuss it. Your above statement is ludicrous. This had nothing to do with the international community. England, basically deeded Palestine to a people primarily from Europe. It was written to "Lord" Rothschild and was pushed upon the British government through his agent, Chaim Weizmann.

.... unless the grabbing is done in furtherance of the Islamist colonial project.

If you acknowledge it is not right to grab land in furtherance of a colonial project, then why does it matter who the perpetrators are? Is it fair to say that this is wrong whether done by Muslims, Christians, Jews or any group for that matter?

BIG BROTHERHOOD IS WATCHING YOU

No, it is not wrong; unless you believe all White people should leave the United States. The laws of evolution are inviolable.

Spoiled degenerates with strange sympathies have too much influence on contemporary thought. If you take the con out of it, it will only be temporary. The future will laugh at our silly sense of social justice, preached to us by know-it-all nobodies and high-and-mighty lowlife.

 

[danielpalos]

The right wing doesn't have a problem with Israelites.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Her support for the existence of Israel is, by her own lights, conditional on the existence of a state of Palestine. She thus displays her profound ignorance of Jewish, Arab and Middle Eastern history by assuming that people called the Palestinians were entitled to the same promise of a national homeland.

There was never, of course, any “Palestinian” people.The reason the Balfour Declaration promised the former land of Israel to the Jews was that they are the onlypeople for whom that land was ever their national kingdom, the only extant indigenous people of that land and who were merely to be restored to their own homeland from which they had been exiled by succeeding waves of occupiers.

By wrapping herself in the Palestinian cause, Thornberry is associating her party once again with an agenda of colonialist aggression (the Palestinians remain committed to the destruction of Israel), racist ethnic cleansing (the Palestinians repeatedly declare that no Jews would be allowed to live in a state of Palestine) and antisemitism (the Palestinians attempt ceaselessly to write the Jews out of their own history and religion and use Nazi-style imagery and blood libels to incite their children to anti-Jewish hatred).

And of course, a Palestine state alongside Israel has been on offer repeatedly since 1936 – yet it has been the Arabs and “Palestinians” who have refused it while the Jews have always accepted it. There could be a state of Palestine tomorrow if the Palestinians would accept Israel’s right to exist alongside it. Instead, they want such a state solely in order to destroy Israel altogether.

(full article online)

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