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The Peace on The
Horizon - 75 Years after The World War 2 in the Middle East (15)
Prologue (15)
015. The
Balfour Declaration (2/2)
The letter sent from Balfour to Lord Rothschild told as follows:
"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.”
This declaration has shown clearly the
intention of the British government to support the construction of Jewish
colony in the Palestinian homelands. Historically, the Jews had left Palestine
in the first century AD. But Arabs have been living in Palestine continuously
for nearly two thousand years since then. It was the reason why the British
government mentioned in the letter that "Nothing shall be done which may
prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine". This phrase, however, has not been abided. On the contrary,
Israel has widened its territory in Palestine through four wars – Israeli
Independent War in 1948, Suez War in 1956, Six-days War in 1967 and Yom Kippur
War in 1978. Israel is continuing to expand their settlements even now. Arabs
are just staring at Jewish outrage without effective countermeasures.
(To be continued ----)
(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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