The Balfour declaration (this is now your land) legitimised nothing!

The agreed signed sealed and witnessed, two state solution would have?

Except,( thieves demonstrate more honour) it has subsequently been used for outhouse duties! As ever more illegal settlements were built on annexed land, never ever included in the Balfour declaration!

Your spin is better than the now legendary whirling dervish.
Alan B.

Israel is constantly on the back foot, irrespective of the changing political dynamics. Is the resurrection of the Balfour agreement as an issue, more of the same “ back foot” response?

Israel is a religious state. The war against the Gentiles will continue; it is mandated by God. One rule for the Gentiles, another for the Hebrews. Read below!

https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2012/09/01/why-does-israel-hate-gentiles/

Return in a thousand years, nothing has change.

In 1000 years there would be another D Singer with nonsense.

"Lord Balfour (declared), chillingly, that Zionism was 'of far profounder import than the desire and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land"
Chillingly - our news-grabbing academic selectively misquoted what Lord Balfour actually said:

" And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land".
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David is nuts.

Why don't we start wil the actual letter David?
You waffle on so much crap to bolster your bs stories.
Why don't you just a link to the actual letter in question.

http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/1743866_original.jpg

Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet
"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"
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

"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"

Emphasis: How exactly were you going to create a Jewish state (National homeland for the Jews) whilst not doing anything to prejudice non- Jewish communities?

Isn't it really just a load of crap right from the start?

Lets take a better look at what happened regards the Balfour Declaration.
http://youtu.be/TJiIARWpiXw

Maybe we should look at Rothschild Zionism
http://youtu.be/VskFmitRpbo

Israels Fake History
http://youtu.be/YUoDVcx88Kg

And now lets remind ourselves of Naeim Gilardi's revelations.
http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjews.html

Now you can improve your writing and do non-biased articles David Singer.
- No need to thank me, you're welcome.

Or,

The Balfour declaration was a promise by the British government during World War One, announcing support for establishment of "a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. Palestine was still a part of the Ottoman Empire at the time, with a minority Jewish population.
The 67-word document, in the form of a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to the prominent British Jewish figure, Lord Rothschild, dated November 2, 1917, read:

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.

The declaration has had a profound impact on theMiddle East and its people;

The British War Cabinet began to consider the future of Palestine during World War One in which it fought the powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.

According to historian Jonathan Schneer, the British somehow "felt that the Jews held the key to winning the war and so they had to figure out how to bribe the Jews to support them."

James Renton of Edge Hill University elaborates on British motives: "We can boil it down to two elements of British self-interest at that time. Not an emotional interest in Zionism or a love of Jews and the Jewish plight and the desire for return of the Jews to the holy land, no... they wanted to mobilise the allies behind Britain and this idea of Jewish power in the world. They were all of the different policy elites in the war - believers in the notion that Jews who have tremendous influence in the corridors of power around the globe. If the British government appeared to support Zionism, they would win over World Jewry to their side, and all that entailed. The British were convinced that Zionism was really at the centre of the Jewish heart."

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Whatever its basis, the relationship between the British Zionists and the government was established in late 1916 and continued to develop throughout 1917, leading to the Declaration in November. It was the first expression of public support for Zionism by a major political power.

"As a term, 'a national home' didn't exist", says Palestinian historian Basheer Nafi. "At that time, international law was well developed. They could have used 'self-governance' or 'independent state'. There was no such a term in international law as 'a national homeland'. What did 'a national home for the Jews in Palestine' mean?"

The term "national home" was intentionally vague as to whether a Jewish state was contemplated. The intended boundaries of Palestine were not specified, and the British government later confirmed that the words "in Palestine" meant that the Jewish national home was not intended to cover all of Palestine.

The second half of the declaration was added to satisfy opponents of the policy, who had claimed that it would otherwise prejudice the position of the local population of Palestine and encourage anti-semitism against Jews worldwide.

While the declaration called for political rights in Palestine for Jews, rights for the Palestinian Arabs, who comprised the vast majority of the local population, were limited to civil and religious rights.

"The Jews were described as a people with the right to self-determination while the Arabs were considered non-Jewish communities," explains French historian Philippe Prevost. "They didn't even mention the name of the Arabs. They were called non-Jewish. They only could enjoy civil and religious rights. They had no political rights."

But the Balfour Declaration set in motion a series of events that, over two decades, began to signal its deep flaws.

The British proposed partitioning Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states, but Arab dissent built up to the three-year Revolt between 1936 and 1939. It was a nationalist uprising against the British administration, demanding Arab independence and the end of Jewish immigration. 

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