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Balfour Declaration 100th Anniversary and the Issue of Palestine

News:

The Balfour Declaration will mark its 100^th anniversary on November 2, 2017, the establishment of the Jewish entity in Palestine. The British pledge to establish a ‘Jewish national home’ in Palestine is being celebrated and condemned as a divisive anniversary approaches. “It is one of the most important letters in history,” British Prime Minister Theresa May told Conservative supporters of [Israel] in December. “It demonstrates Britain’s vital role in creating a homeland for the Jewish people. And it is an anniversary we will be marking with pride.” (The Guardian, Oct. 25)  The Palestinian Authority is planning a major demonstration in London and will request the British government to recognize the State of Palestine on the 1967 land borders. (Haaretz) Balfour Apology Campaign, led by the London-based Palestinian Return Centre, which is seeking an official apology from the British government for issuing the Declaration “which has caused so much damage”.

Comment:

As the ominous Balfour Agreement reaches its 100^th anniversary, showing the consequences on the Palestinian people and the rest of the Muslim countries, especially the defilement of the Quds and its captive Aqsa Mosque and the Masjid al-Ibrahim. As for the demonstration on behalf of the government of the PA, this will be their terms within the constraints of the international dictates while the usurper state of the Jews has yet to be tried in any international court for their constant vile deeds against the Palestinian men, women, and youth and the defiling of the sacred lands and mosques. Outrageous is the call for international recognition of the 1967 land borders, what about the remaining lands of 1948….Akka, Yaffa, Haifa, and the horrific Deir Yassin Massacre with so many villages bloodily wiped out by the Zionist regime with the aid of British arms? Is this not considered Palestine the Blessed Land in the PA’s manifesto?

Really why would the PA demonstrate in London?? Why request recognition from the essential founder and backer of the initial Jewish state? Why would the British empire retract such a major agreement that is line with the Sykes–Picot landscape carving out the Islamic land into agent-statelets with the belligerent enemy state at its heart? Where is the logic on part of the Palestinian Authority whose main being is to protect and recognize the enemy’s borders on Palestine’s land? If this calamitous evil strikes outrage against whose occupier murders its occupied people in cold blood, holds minors indefinitely subjected to extreme torture tactics including rape and terror induced policies, grabs lands from the Palestinian people and declares it their land, scorching the Palestinian farmers’ olive groves and fruit trees to thick cinders, then why do the rulers in the Palestinian Authority (PA) sit and deal with the occupiers and the commanders of the Muslim countries not do their full invested duty …plain and simple to eradicate the Balfour Agreement and any other agreement that recognizes and trades with the usurper Zionist state be they water treaties, oil and gas deals, or other minerals…and in the simplest terms to eradicate the Jewish entity from the heart of the Islamic lands so the unity of the Muslims can easily be facilitated under the new world order of the Islamic Khilafah (righteous Caliphate) upon the methodology of the Prophethood.

It was the British empire that promised Palestine (Transjordan) to the Arabs in return for rebelling against the Ottoman Caliphate… but the British had a far more malicious cunning plan to deeply divide the Muslim map making it nearly impossible for the war torn divided Muslims at the time to revitalize their belief in their Khilafah system and reject the western imperialist plans to subject them to their dictates which would have colossally dreadful results as demonstrated today.

Typical of the British empire’s supremacist attitude towards non-Anglos, they saw it proper to gift a land fully inhabited by its indigenous people to a foreign people collected from various parts of the world to artificially populate a newfound entity which led to bloody massacres and mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people. Numerous grassroots organizations fight for the freedom of Palestine and for the Palestinian rights, it is one issue that refuses to shrink away despite the huge efforts of normalization with the Jewish entity. Yet the dilemma is shown as an ominous deadlock by academics, politicians, specialty think tanks, all the while the Islamic solution is clear for the Muslims, return Palestine and the Levantine countries to the reunification of one land along with the dozens of carved out Muslim countries to be known as the one ruling body of the upcoming Khilafah Rashidah without the humiliation of preposterous negotiation assemblies and foreign constraints designed to chain the Muslim Ummah to western imperialism.

 Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Manal Bader