PA Foreign Ministry calls the Balfour Declaration a “historic mistake” and a “crime”
“The [PA] Foreign Ministry said that the present anniversary of the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration) was different than that of previous years – although this ominous Promise reflected a colonialist occupation mentality, expressed at the time in official British positions by way of a criminal exploitation of the power balance – because this year, the anniversary comes against the backdrop of the vote of the British House of Commons by an overwhelming majority, to rectify this historic mistake, made by the British government about one hundred years ago… Nonetheless, we condemn today, as we have done in previous years, this ominous anniversary, the consequences of which have yet to be alleviated, and for which crime against the Palestinian people Britain has yet to apologize for the past hundred years.”
From WAFA, official PA news agency
Note: 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 view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” and is seen as the basis for later international commitments to establish the State of Israel.
From WAFA, official PA news agency
Note: 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 view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” and is seen as the basis for later international commitments to establish the State of Israel.