The Balfour Declaration

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Balfour Declaration: British PM Hosts Israel's Netanyahu for Centenary
BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41819451

Extract: UK Prime Minister Theresa May is hosting her Israeli counterpart to mark the centenary of a British pledge that paved the way for Israel's creation. Mrs May and Benjamin Netanyahu will attend a dinner honouring the Balfour Declaration of British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Israel and Jewish communities view the pledge as momentous, while Palestinians regard it as a historical injustice. The UK has rejected calls to apologise and has said it is proud of its role ... Mrs May will warn against using criticism of Israel as a cover for anti-Semitism ... "There is today a new and pernicious form of anti-Semitism which uses criticism of the actions of the Israeli government as a despicable justification for questioning the very right of Israel to exist," she will say. "This is abhorrent, and we will not stand for it."


Balfour Declaration of Support for Jewish 'Homeland' Still Divisive at 100
D. M. Halbfinger | The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/world/middleeast/balfour-declaration-israel.html

Extract: It was the moment of conception of what would become the State of Israel - or it was the original sin in which Israel was conceived. The Balfour Declaration, the pivotal, 67-word assurance by the British foreign secretary that promised support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," turned 100 on Thursday, meeting with tributes in Jerusalem and London, and tear gas in Bethlehem. Demonstrators marched in nearly every major West Bank city ... The fundamental problems the Balfour Declaration raised - as "one nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third," in the author Arthur Koestler's memorable formulation - have not been resolved in the intervening years, but rather compounded and complicated.


British Prime Minister Vows to Mark Balfour Centennial 'With Pride'
The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/theresa-may-vows-to-mark-balfour-centennial-with-pride

Extract: UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday that her country would celebrate "with pride" its role in the creation of the State of Israel and upcoming 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which pledged London's support for a Jewish homeland. Her comments came amid Palestinian demands that Britain retract and apologize for the declaration, and one week before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due in London to celebrate the document's centennial.  "We are proud of the role that we played in the creation of the State of Israel, and we will certainly mark the centenary with pride," May told the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions.


Who Wrote the Balfour Declaration and Why: The World War I Connection
Alison Weir - If Americans Knew
https://israelpalestinenews.org/wrote-balfour-declaration-world-war-connection

Extract: Diverse documentary evidence shows that Zionists pushed for the U.S. to enter the war on Britain's side as part of a deal to gain British support for their colonization of Palestine ... In 1917 British Foreign Minister Lord Balfour issued a letter to Zionist leader Lord Rothschild. Known as the Balfour Declaration, this letter promised that Britain would "view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," and "use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object." ... The influence of Brandeis and other Zionists in the U.S. had enabled Zionists to form an alliance with Britain, one of the world's great powers, a remarkable achievement for a non-state group and a measure of Zionists' by-then immense power.

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Prime Minister May Wants British People to Feel 'Pride' in the Balfour Declaration
Robert Fisk | The Independent (Britain)
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/balfour-declaration-israel-palestine-theresa-may-government-centenary-arabs-jewish-settlements-a7607491.html

Extract: To burnish the 1917 document which promised Britain's support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine but which would ultimately create that very refugee population - refugees being the target of her own anti-immigration policies - is little short of iniquitous. The Balfour Declaration's intrinsic lie - that while Britain supported a Jewish homeland, nothing would be done "which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine" - is matched today by the equally dishonest response of Balfour's lamentable successor at the Foreign Office ... Balfour's 1917 declaration, of course, was an attempt to avoid disaster in the First World War by encouraging the Jews of Russia and America to support the Allies against Germany. 


Balfour Declaration: Why Britain Cannot Continue To Avoid Its Responsibility
Saeb Erekat | Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/balfour-declaration-britain-cannot-continue-avoid-its-responsibility-515746

... The Balfour Declaration was a letter sent by a British lord, on behalf of the U.K., to a British banker and politician [Lord Walter Rothschild] representing the Zionist movement in 1917. It promised the establishment in Palestine, a land that did not belong to them, of a national home for the Jewish people ... When the Balfour Declaration was issued, the area known as historic Palestine was inhabited by over 700,000 people, the overwhelming majority indigenous Arabs ... Palestinian rejection of the Balfour Declaration was not rooted in anti-Semitism or anti-Jewish sentiments, rather in defense and pursuit of the inalienable right of the Palestinian people for self-determination in their homeland.


Zionism's Violent Legacy
Donald Neff | IHR
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n1p42_neff.html

Extract: The Irgun was not the only Jewish terrorist group but it was the most active in causing indiscriminate terror in pre-Israel Palestine. Up to the time of the Jaffa attack, its most spectacular feat had been the July 22, 1946, blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, with the killing of 91 people - 41 Arabs, 28 Britons and 17 Jews. The other major Jewish terrorist group operating in Palestine in the 1940s was the Lohamei Herut Israel - "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel," Lehi in the Hebrew acronym - also known as the Stern Gang after its fanatical founder Avraham Stern.

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Behind the Balfour Declaration
Robert John | Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p389_John.html

Extract: The Balfour Declaration may be the most extraordinary document produced by any government in world history. It took the form of a letter from the government of His Britannic Majesty King George the Fifth, the Government of the largest empire the world has even known, on which -- once upon a time -- the sun never set; a letter to an international financier of the banking house of Rothschild who had been made a peer of the realm ... Malcolm's belief in the Balfour Declaration as a means of bringing the United States into the war was confirmed by Samuel Landman, secretary to the Zionist leaders Weizmann and Sokolow, and later secretary of the World Zionist Organization.


One Hundred Years of the Balfour Decision
Lawrence Davidson | CounterPunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/15/one-hundred-years-of-the-balfour-decision

Extract: British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that Britain will celebrate the 100the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration later this year. The Conservative Party leader addressed her party's "Friends of Israel" faction and declared that the Balfour Declaration was "one of the most important letters in history" while pledging that her government would celebrate it "with pride." Her determination to do so is a clear indication that those who control national politics also control official interpretations of history. In the case of the Balfour Declaration's centenary, it is the ongoing alliance of Zionist special interests and British political power that is about to turn what has been a disaster for Britons, Jews and Palestinians alike, into a source of national pride.


The Balfour Declaration: A Century of Jewish Power
Gilad Atzmon
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2017/5/17/the-balfour-declaration-a-century-of-jewish-power

Extract: The Balfour Declaration provides solid evidence that the dominance of Jewish political lobbies in world affairs is not really a 'new development.' ... In his invaluable book, The Pity of it All, Israeli historian Amos Elon suggests that the 1917 Balfour Declaration was at least partially motivated by the British government's desire to win the support of pro-German American Jews so that they would help to pull the USA into the war ... Elon's conclusion is clear. "The 1917 Balfour Declaration, calling for the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, was at least partly motivated by the British government's desire to win support among pro-German American Jews."