Fatah calls the Balfour Declaration was “ominous”
Image and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture
Posted text: “105 years since the ominous Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration)
A promise of one who has no ownership to one who has no right
Today, Wednesday, Nov. 2, [2022,] is the 105th anniversary of the issuing of the ominous Balfour Promise, by virtue of which Britain gave the Jews the right to establish a national home in Palestine.
Our elderly are dying, and our young people will not forget.
#Balfour_105”
The image shows former British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour on the right, and on the left is the logo of Fatah-run Awdah TV.
Text on image: “Lest we forget our Palestine
British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour
The Balfour Promise –
A promise of one who has no ownership to one who has no right
The Balfour Promise is the common nickname for a letter that Arthur James Balfour sent on Nov. 2, 1917, to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, in which he noted the British government’s support for establishing a national home for the Jews in our Palestine.”
The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that "His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." In 1922, the League of Nations adopted this and made the British Mandate "responsible for putting into effect the declaration," which led to the UN vote in favor of partitioning Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state in 1947. In response, Britain ended its mandate on May 15, 1948, and the Palestinian Jews, who accepted the Partition Plan, declared the independent State of Israel. The Palestinian Arabs rejected the plan and together with 7 Arab states attacked Israel, in what is now known as Israel's War of Independence.