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Post by Daniel on Apr 27, 2017 8:42:38 GMT -5
United Nations alters Balfour Declaration parliamentary records
David Singer, 27/04/17
An official United Nations document published by the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat contains a deliberately altered record of a 1922 parliamentary House of Lords debate on the Balfour Declaration.
The Balfour Declaration – dated 2 November 1917 - called for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people – it being clearly understood that nothing would be done which might 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 Balfour Declaration was subsequently written into international law after being incorporated into the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine on 24 July 1922.
The upcoming centenary of the Balfour Declaration has prompted a concerted international campaign calling on the British Government to apologise for another Government’s decision taken 100 years ago.
Baroness Anelay – Minister of State (Foreign Commonwealth Office) - told the House of Lords on 3 April 2017 that no such apology would be forthcoming.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20445
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Post by Daniel on Nov 1, 2017 10:12:28 GMT -5
Balfour Declaration: A century old and as disputed as ever
By Alan D. Abbey and Benjamin Emmerich
...The Balfour Declaration emerged at a time of brutal military carnage. Britain and France wished to bring the United States into the Great War and to keep Russia on the battlefield on their side of a bitter struggle against Germany in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. Foreign Minister Lord Balfour and others believed that American and Russian Jews could wield enough influence over the foreign policies of their respective countries to woo them to the British side.
British leaders such as prime minister Lloyd George and Winston Churchill wanted to help Jewish immigration to Palestine, even as others in Britain favored Arab claims over the land, which at that time was under the rule of the fading and embattled Ottoman Empire.
Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, whose scientific breakthroughs powered British munitions, juggled efforts to charm British policymakers and browbeat influential anti-Zionist British Jews. He was aware that outsized views of Jewish power teetered between sincere Christian Zionism and racist conspiracy theories.
“We hate equally anti-Semitism and philo-Semitism. Both are equally degrading,” Weizmann said.
The declaration is so brief it bears quoting in full:
“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 did not acknowledge that Palestine was still part of the Ottoman Empire at the time it was written, and therefore that Britain had no real right to promise anything to anyone. Its vagueness stopped short of guaranteeing political sovereignty or independence to Palestinian Jews or Arabs.
In fact, Britain had imperial designs on the Middle East. The goal was to bring Palestine into the British Empire after the war concluded, even as warring factions of His Majesty’s government made extravagant and conflicting promises to Jews and Arabs.
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www.timesofisrael.com/the-balfour-declaration-a-century-old-and-as-disputed-as-ever/
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Post by Daniel on Nov 5, 2017 9:37:42 GMT -5
The Balfour Declaration – A Thorn in the Flesh of Political Correctness!
By Olivier Melnick
November 2, 2017
Little did Lord Arthur Balfour (1848-1930) know when he penned his declaration, that much of the world would be in an uproar about it, 1oo years later. His short letter to Lord Rothschild on behalf of the Jewish people became a pillar in the foundation of the modern state of Israel. The 1917 Balfour Declaration established that because of the “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine,” The Jewish people were entitled to return to the area. The statement was unequivocal: “His Majesty’s Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object.”
The Balfour Declaration is a document that should have been foundational in the world’s recognition of Israel’s right for self-determination within the boundaries of her own historical and biblical land of Eretz Yisrael. It was followed by another equally important but lesser known agreement including the original Balfour text, known as the San Remo Resolution, where the Mandate for Palestine was drawn together (land boundaries were decided four years later.) As a result of the San Remo Resolution being drafted, Great Britain ended-up being responsible for the drawing of the Mandate and land boundaries for Palestine. This became later known as the “British Mandate for Palestine,” and led to the 1947 United Nations vote in favor of Resolution 181 and the partitioning of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. It must be noted that the term “Palestine” as used in the Balfour Declaration and San Remo Resolution, is merely the name of a Middle East geographical boundary known as the Land of Israel today. The word then was not as politically charged as it is today. On May 14, 1948, under the leadership of David Ben Gurion, one day before the end of the British Mandate, Israel became a modern nation. Within hours five neighboring Arab countries declared war on the newborn Jewish state, and Israel has been in a state of war ever since.
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www.newantisemitism.com/antisemitism/the-balfour-declaration-a-thorn-in-the-flesh-of-political-correctness
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