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| 2003-11-03 | |
| JPost; reg reqd. Hat tip LGF. Palestinians on Sunday marked the 86th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration by demanding an apology from Britain for promising "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip marched in the streets "Haman! Haman!" For decades the Palestinians and the Arab world have been marking the "notorious" anniversary of the Balfour Declaration — a reference to foreign secretary Arthur Balfour’s support in 1917 for a "national home" for the Jews in Palestine — by protests and And they’re peeved that Hitler was foiled; never mind that they’d have been next. Statements issued by different Palestinian factions, organizations, and officials demanded an apology from Britain, saying it is morally and legally responsible for the creation of Israel. The Palestinian Council for Defending Refugees Rights said Britain must apologize for the injustice done to the Palestinians as a result of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. "We hold Britain responsible, morally and legally, for the injustice done to the Palestinian cause," the council said. "Jews breathe. That’s unfair."
"And then round up the Jews for extermination, dammit!" Youssef al-Kazzaz, the director of the Voice of Palestine, the Palestinian Authority’s official radio station, also demanded an apology from Britain for the "criminal" Balfour Declaration. "Britain alone bears the responsibility for the ill-reputed Balfour Declaration," he said. "Britain alone should therefore make an official apology to the Palestinians for what this declaration caused, including occupation, displacement, killings, and settlements. That decision gave Israel a free hand to carry out its known policies in Palestine." "Democracy, prosperity, and freedom suck." Kazzaz called on Palestinians and Arabs living in Britain to form special committees to put pressure on the British government to issue a similar declaration acknowledging the Palestinians’ right to establish their own state. "Otherwise, the Palestinian people in their homeland and elsewhere would continue to hold Britain responsible for this crime in favor of Israel," he said. How is it crime? Oh yeah I forgot the Sharia motto: Freedom is slavery. The Arab Liberation Front, a breakaway group from the PLO, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued statements in Gaza City saying that Britain bears the historic responsibility for the creation of Israel. Hamas also issued a statement demanding an apology from Britain, saying it is morally and legally responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians. Uh-huh. Yeah sure. | |
| Posted by:Atrus |
| #2 The trigger for Herzl's establishment of the Zionist movement was the Dreyfus case wasn't it? Maybe the Pallies should ask the French to apologise? AFAIK the idea of emmigration to the Palestine mandate was most popular amongst the Ashkenazim in Eastern Europe (no prizes for guessing why) so maybe the Romanians, Poles etc should say sorry for being so anti-Semitic? Then there was some kind of unpleasantness in central Europe in the middle part of the 20th century (Apologies from the Germans?) & Oh, BTW the Mizrahim ('Oriental' Jews) weren't (as a rule) fanatical Zionists were they, so who's responsible for them moving to Medinat Yisrael en masse? |
| Posted by: Dave 2003-11-3 3:02:12 PM |
| #1 On your knees, blokes! Note to paleos. Try winning your wars instead of blaming others. Hell, you had all the might of Syria, Egypt, Jordan, the Soviets. Pathetic. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-11-3 1:53:33 PM |