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Wed 02 Nov 2022 8:32 am - Jerusalem Time

105 years since the Balfour Declaration

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Wednesday, November 2nd, marks the 105th anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration .


This promise was issued on this day in the year 1917, according to which Britain granted the Jews the right to establish a national home for them in Palestine, based on the false saying, “A land without a people for a people without a land.”


The promise came in the form of a statement addressed by the British Foreign Secretary at the time (Arthur James Balfour) in the government of David Lloyd George, to Lord Rothschild (one of the leaders of the global Zionist movement), after negotiations that lasted three years between the British government on the one hand, and British Jews and the Zionist Organization World on the other hand, through which the Zionists were able to convince Britain of their ability to achieve Britain's goals and preserve its interests in the region, and this is the translation of its text.


This promise was the first actual step for the West on the road to establishing an entity for the Jews on the land of Palestine in response to the aspirations of global Zionism at the expense of an indigenous people rooted in this land for thousands of years.


Thus, Britain achieved the saying: “He who does not have a promise has given to those who do not deserve it”, and that day will be a black day in the history of the Palestinian people, but in the history of all mankind, and a blow to justice and international legitimacy.



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