P F Tinmore
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How do you seek citizenship from the government of a nation that never existed?![]()
It was a part of the Palestine Mandate to facilitate Jews to get Palestinian citizenship.
Palestine has always been the homeland of the Jews. Jews have lived in Palestine since the beginning of time. Even today Jews living in Palestine, both as citizens and foreign nationals, are safer than Jews living in Israel.
Palestine is mentioned in the Old Testament...zero times.
Palestine is mentioned in the New Testament...zero times.
Palestine is mentioned in the Quran...zero times.
Eminent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Middle-East-Bernard-Lewis/dp/0684832801/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278678667&sr=8-6]Amazon.com: The Middle East (9780684832807): Bernard Lewis: Books[/ame]For Arabs, too, the term Palestine was unacceptable, though for other reasons. For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant but not abhorrent in the same way as it was to Jews. The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 (dated 2 November 1917) was a formal statement of policy by the British government stating that
"His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."[1]
The declaration was made in a letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, a Zionist organization. The letter reflected the position of the British Cabinet, as agreed upon in a meeting on 31 October 1917. It further stated that the declaration is a sign of "sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations."
The statement was issued through the efforts of Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow, the principal Zionist leaders based in London; as they had asked for the reconstitution of Palestine as the Jewish national home the declaration fell short of Zionist expectations.[2]
Balfour Declaration of 1917 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I guess that stupid fucking idiot Balfour, and that stupid fucking idiot Rothschild, and that stupid fucking idiot Weizmann, and that stupid fucking idiot Sokolow did not know that there was no Palestine.