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| Palestinian lawyers sue Britain for 1917 Balfour Declaration in Nablus court |
| 2020-10-24 |
”Pay attention to us!“ [IsraelTimes] Paleostinian lawyers file a complaint to sue the British government for the 1917 declaration setting out London’s support for a national home for the Jewish people in Paleostine.The lawyers file a complaint in the West Bank town of Nablus that claims "the suffering of the Paleostinians" stemmed from this document. The Balfour Declaration, signed by the then-British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, is seen as a precursor to Israel’s creation in 1948. "The British mandate is at the root of the suffering of the Paleostinian people and has paved the way for the violation of their rights and the plunder of their land," Munib al-Masri, head of the Federation of Independent and Democratic Trade Unions, tells a news conference in Ramallah. As well as the trade unions group, the complaint is filed on behalf of the International Commission to Support Paleostinian People’s Rights and the Paleostinian Journalists’ Syndicate. The Balfour Declaration was published on November 2, 1917, a year before the end of World War I. In one sentence it announced the British government’s backing for the establishment within Paleostine, then a region of the Ottoman Empire, of "a national home for the Jewish people." It was a shock to the Arab world, which had not been consulted and had received vague promises of independence of its own in the post-war break up of the defeated Ottoman Empire. The Paleostinians have continuously condemned the declaration, which they refer to as the "Balfour promise," claiming Britannia was giving away land it did not own. With the Balfour Declaration, London was seeking Jewish support for its war efforts, and the Zionist push for a homeland for Jews was an emerging political force. The British Mandate for Paleostine was later set up in the wake of World War I, and ran until Israel’s declaration of statehood in 1948. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #12 ^ is she related to Non-Binary Cis-Gendered Jordan? |
| Posted by: Spanky Barnsmell8975 2020-10-24 19:17 |
| #11 Transjordan? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-10-24 18:23 |
| #10 Palistine did not even exist in 1917 did it? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-10-24 18:21 |
| #9 the peace process is a |
| Posted by: Unaviling Smiter of the Apes1304 2020-10-24 16:35 |
| #8 The Muslim World in 1917. What an eye opening tour that would be. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-10-24 14:39 |
| #7 L’audace toujours l’audace The are enough idiots in a jury pool to make a longshot case give crumbs or publicity to keep welfare checks flowing into the coffers in Gaza. The peace process is a business like racism now. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-10-24 12:55 |
| #6 That's a hell of a big ambulance to chase. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2020-10-24 11:15 |
| #5 moving from warfare to lawfare? who said Paleostinians couldn't evolve? |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-10-24 09:05 |
| #4 Ref #3: Just a little bit of backgound info on the perfidious West. If you think the dems would not throw Israel to the wolves under a Harris administration, please think again. If you've ever wondered why some former Rhodesians, or many South Africans have no use for the West (particularly Great Britain) perhaps this will explain a thing or two. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-10-24 08:20 |
| #3 claiming Britannia was giving away land it did not own. Albeit with the help of other actors, just ask the Czechs ca. 1938. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-10-24 08:02 |
| #2 No, the League of Nations is the source of your misery, other than Islam, take this matter to the League, I'm sure they'll get right on it. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-10-24 07:57 |
| #1 I think the statute of limitations is up on that. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-10-24 00:20 |