Israel says that, as imperial Britain did not specify political rights for Palestinians, only Jews have a right to sovereignty over Palestine from the river to the sea.
That's the century-long argument stemming from the Balfour declaration of 1917.
And the EU's Josep Borrell agreed.
#USPol #DisplacementReplacement #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #Balfour #Zionism #Imperialism #Racism #BDS @palestine .
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If you want a homeland for x, you write to the leadership of x. If the only consideration is power & money, you write to the King....
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in reply to DrALJONES • •Nobody took Lord Balfour seriously at the time of his utterances. Look how long it took before anybody did. Nobody coronated Lord Balfour king of anything.
DrALJONES
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •Idk that that's the point. I thought the poster might be alluding to Jewish powerbrokers. I was trying to point out that power and money is not confined to one group.
The letter was addressed to Rothschild, and the British started bringing Eastern European Jews to Palestine after ww1 finished. They had long planned it.
British & American Christian Zionists were very influential.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfou…
public statement written by Arthur Balfour issued by the British government in 1917 in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine then an Ottoman region
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in reply to DrALJONES • •The British public was outraged at the time it was issued, though, and whatever the UK did in that regard was on the QT. Britain was operating under the League of Nations' -issued Palestine Mandate but that was the extent of it at the time.