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Balfour Declaration falsehoods fuel Jew-hatred and Israel-bashing : Comments

By David Singer, published 7/11/2017

The centenary of the Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917, is being used to delegitimise the State of Israel.

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In May 1939, the British government had begun to reconsider its position and published a policy document, known in the UK as a White Paper. It proposed abandoning the partition of Palestine into two states - and called instead for an independent Palestine in which Arabs and Jews would share government.

It limited Jewish immigration to 75,000 for five years and said that the Arab majority should determine future immigration levels. It also said that Balfour had not meant to create a Jewish state at the expense of the Arabs - any more than the McMahon-Hussein correspondence 24 years before had promised an Arab state to Sharif Hussein of Mecca.

But the White Paper faced opposition on several fronts and was dropped by a British government suddenly preoccupied with the Second World War.
A hundred years on, the declaration's effects still resonate across the Middle East. It still represents to Palestinians the moment an imperial powerpromised their land away to another people. They hold Balfour responsiblefor their expulsion, displacement and occupation.

How do you like those apples David? A bit more truth than your little rant eh!
Posted by Geoff of Perth, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 11:59:32 AM
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//Now you can improve your writing and do non-biased articles David Singer.//

Ha! I'll believe that when I see it.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 7:44:06 PM
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Remember there are some Jews, including the Orthodox Neturei Karta who oppose the existence of a Jewish state. Also many more who oppose excesses of Zionists in Israel and those in other countries = particularly the US and UK supporting it. They have largely covertly created much of the troubles in the Middle East. One aim has been To "Balkanise " or break up Syria and Iraq into seven small states. Then to encourage conflicts between them to minimise the likelihood of them threatening Israel and facilitate the long term Oded Yinon plan of a "Greater Israel" between the Nile and Euphrates Rivers on more stolen Arab land. Also helps having wars create a lot of refugees who leave the targeted areas.

Thanks to the Internet, nowadays there is wide and quick accessibility to news and views other than those that the Largely Zionist controlled Western Mainstream Media is inclined to disseminate. Trolling on behalf of the Zionist Settler State in Occupied Palestine by the likes of David Singer is much less effective than it used to be. Also, there has ben a lot of exposure of excesses of the Israeli "regime".
Posted by mox, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 10:01:49 PM
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#nicknamenick

You are no better than that Manchester Uni lecturer Nick Thoburn -
misquoting again what was actually said by Lord Balfour:
"The Four Great Powers are committed to Zionism. 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"
Do you and your ilk hate the Jews so much that you have to falsify what Balfour actually said?

#Armchair critic

It was the British Mandatory Authority that had to deal with riots by the Arabs in 1920 and 1921, the Hebron massacre in 1929 and the Arab uprising between 1936-1939.

Had the Arabs accepted the Balfour Declaration and not tried to stop Jews emigrating to Palestine - things would have been so different. 100 years of the same rejectionism has proved they have learned nothing. Neither have you.
Posted by david singer, Thursday, 9 November 2017 11:50:48 AM
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#Geoff of Perth #Mox # toni lavis

You really need to get over what the world agreed on 100 years ago. Do you carry on about other international decisions that happened 100 or 50 or 25 years ago.

What happened - happened. Get on with life guys.

Now if you want to point out any statement of fact in my article which you claim to be misleading or wrong - please do not hesitate to do so and we can perhaps then discuss it in a rational and civilized manner.

#Alan B

You wrongly state:
" As ever more illegal settlements were built on annexed land, never ever included in the Balfour declaration!"

1. The land has not been annexed
2. The settlements are legal in international law under Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the United Nations Charter. The Balfour Declaration was incorporated in the Mandate for Palestine - a unanimous decision made by all 51 member states of the League of Nations.
3. Judea and Samaria and Gaza was designated as part of the land in which the Jewish National Home was to be reconstituted. The area allotted to the Jews was 22% of the land in the Mandate for Palestine. The land allotted to the Arabs comprised the remaining 78%.
Posted by david singer, Thursday, 9 November 2017 2:01:42 PM
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//You are no better than that Manchester Uni lecturer Nick Thoburn -
misquoting again what was actually said by Lord Balfour//

So according to you Balfour definitely 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"

Which when, on comparison with Nick's version of Balfour's words:

"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"

.... turns out to be exactly the same, you accuse him of misrepresentation and anti-semitism?

This is why everybody is laughing at you, Dave.

You're about the best value on this site save our runner.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Thursday, 9 November 2017 4:27:51 PM
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