"Over
the past few weeks, British diplomats have stated that they are doing
all they can to discourage Palestine’s bid for “observer state” status
in the UN General Assembly. If this is an official British position,
then it is reprehensible, yet not all that surprising.
Ninety-five
years ago tomorrow, on November 2, 1917, British imperialism in
Palestine began when Lord Balfour, the then British foreign secretary
and former prime minister, sent a letter to Baron Rothschild, one of the
leaders of the Zionist movement. This letter became known as the
“Balfour Declaration”.
In
that letter, Balfour promised British support for the Zionist programme
of establishing a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
This pledge of support was made without consulting the indigenous
Christian and Muslim inhabitants of Palestine, the Palestinian people.
And it was made before British troops had even conquered the land."
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