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By
Sami Jamil Jadallah
On Thursday November 2, 2017, British Prime Minister Teresa May hosted international dignitaries from around the world, from Israel, members of the international Zionist movement, representatives of international Jewries and a host of international dignitaries (closet anti-Semites) marking the 100-year anniversary of the infamous “Balfour Declaration”, with none other than Bibi Netanyahu as guest of honor, celebrating cleansing Europe of its Jewry.
If any one is interested to know more about the Balfour Declaration this is when the foreign minister, Arthur Balfour, of a colonial country (Great Britain) gave a personal letter to a private citizen, Lord Walter Rothschild, leader of the British Jewish community, promising Palestine, a land and country that Britain does not own to the Zionist Federation which has no right to own Palestine in the first place. You figure it out!
The letter states the following:
“Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with the Jewish Zionist aspiration, which has been submitted to, and approved by, the cabinet.
His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievements of their object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which many prejudice the civil and religious rights existing non Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
It shall be my pleasure if you would bring this matter to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Truly,
Arthur James Balfour”
With a stroke of the pen, the foreign minister of colonial Britain declared 100 years of wars, conflict and bloodshed in Palestine between Jews, Israelis, the world’s Zionist and Palestinians, declaring wars between European and American Jewry through ethnic cleansing and the promotion of anti-Semitism, and declaring wars on Western democracies undermined by the power and influence of the Zionist movement especially here in the US, all in the service and loyalty to a foreign country.
The Balfour Declaration is no less in its importance than that of Adolf Hitler’s declaration of war against the Jews, when on September 19, 1919 he referred to the Jews as a “race-tuberculosis of the people” concluding with the “ultimate goal must definitely be the removal of Jews all together,” culminating in Hitler’s Final Solution.
Hitler began to implement and achieve his objective when on the night of November 9-10, 1938 and in what became known as Kristallnacht, the Nazis were let loose on the streets of major cities, attacking Jewish businesses, pillaging and destroying synagogues and attacking Jews with a vengeance. Three days later Jewish children were forbidden from German schools, and some 30,000 Jews, families with children were rounded up and sent to the concentration camps, the horrors continuing with the murder of 6 million Jews in these camps.
While Britain did not engage in such savagery it enabled gangs of Zionists, recently arrived from East Europe, mostly Bolsheviks, well armed and well trained, to begin warfare against local Palestinian communities and since the arrival of these early Zionists from East Europe and Russia, the Palestinians have been suffering their own “Kristallnacht” everyday.
While it is hard to put an estimate on the lives lost, both Arabs and Israeli, due to and arising directly or indirectly from the Balfour Declaration, it must reach millions if one is to count all the wars Israel initiated and engaged in not only in Palestine against the Palestinians but in Syria and Lebanon and as far as Iraq and Tunisia; not including wars initiated by the US on behalf of Israel causing a million dead in Iraq alone.
It is interesting to note that the Balfour Declaration referred to the Palestinian Arabs as a “non-Jewish community”, this bastard did not even give the Arabs the dignity to refer to them as “Arabs”.
Of course he was kind enough to ask that “their civil and religious rights protected.” Aware of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Europe, he demanded, “that guarantees must be given to the political rights of Jews in other states.” Balfour simply did not care for the political rights of the indigenous people of Palestine.
No one should know colonial England like the US, which waged its war of independence against Colonial England, finally gaining independence in 1776.
Colonial England is well known for the criminal mess it left behind, as the sun finally set on the most criminal enterprise of the colonial era. Britain is totally responsible for the millions who died as a result of its colonial rule during and after in countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Malaysia and Singapore, all of East Africa, Nigeria, Zambia and other countries in West Africa.
Millions of people in many countries died at the hands of Britain colonial armies and later on as a result of the callous division of colonies it ruled and divided without any regard for the communities involved. Someone in the Colonial Office in London simply took a map and created far away ‘nations’. Civil wars continue to wage as a result of Britain’s colonial history.
If Germany is guilty of the death and murder of Jews from 1939-1945 then England is guilty for the death, murder, destruction, wars and exiles of Palestinians and the entire Middle East from 1917-2017.
Unlike Germany, which recognized its horrible history and role against the Jews, England is holding a celebration for its crimes against the Palestinian People. Of course while Israel and the Zionists got even with Germany, the Palestinians, because of a weaken leadership past and present, are yet to make Britain pay for its crimes.
If Israeli Jews and the world’s Jewry want to erase a grave historical injustice for them and the Palestinians, they should join those of us who are calling for the “One State for All of its People.” www.1not2.org.
Sami Jamil Jadallah
Sami Jamil Jadallah is a US citizen, an immigrant from Palestine with over 35 years of international legal and business experience in the US, Middle East, Europe and North Africa. He is a Veteran of the US Army and holds a BA degree in political science and economics, a master degree in public and environmental affairs and doctor of jurisprudence from Indiana University.
Active in international and local affairs, Sami is a co-drafter of the Pre-Ample for the Constitution of the One State for All of its People in Palestine and is active in veteran’s affairs in support of their re-integration in American society. He lectures and writes on a variety of topics including terrorism, social, economic and political issues related to the US and the Middle East.
Sami believes that education is the only way to transform the Middle East into a peaceful productive region and calls on all foreign troops to get out of the Middle East, leaving the people to shape their own destiny. Sami is in semi-retirement but fully engaged in voluntary work and engaged in the peace movement in the Middle East.
Jewish Arabs and jewish Palestinians dont have problems bc they are privileged. Only the Nonjews are discriminated, dispossessed, etc. Nakba (which began already in 1947!!!), evicted NONJEWS, but not jewish Arabs/jewish Palestinians. Hence the Balfour-declaration is correct, when it references to "non-jewish communities".
The real tragedy is that from day minus one the “non-Jewish communities” Arab, Christian, Baha’i did not welcome back Jews because they were now too modern, too democratic and theatened a world still living in the Middle Ages ... and still do. Welcome them. Don’t say that they have no right to be there at all. And when you see what Arabs do to Arabs in Aleppo, and what the Nazis did in the Holocaust do not be surprised if Israel does whatever it has to do to defend itself. Your criticism should be “proportionate”.