The Balfour declaration was a "satanic promise" according to the PA Daily
Excerpt of an op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “Trump is the new Balfour”
“Today [Nov. 2, 2020] is the 103rd anniversary of the ominous Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration), which laid the political and legal foundations for the establishment of the Zionist colonialist project on the Palestinian land. This promise was given by British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour on behalf of the entire colonialist West in 1917…
He promised the Zionist movement to establish on the land of historical Palestine ‘a national home for the Jews,’ who were not the majority in Palestine despite their waves of immigration – which came one after the other at the time of the promise being issued and afterwards – and also not after the establishment of the state and the strengthening of the colonialist Zionist project, and not even now. They were just a very small minority in Palestine…
This satanic promise, which has no legal, political, or religious basis… was a colonialist promise with serious significances; on the one hand, a rogue state – then Great Britain – took by force the right to do as it pleased with the land, rights, and interests of another people, at a time when it was being unjustly subjected to [Britain’s] colonialist Mandate and control. And on the other hand, it gave the right to colonize the land to the Jewish Zionist groups, a foreign and un-rooted minority with no connection to the land (sic., archaeological and historical evidence decisively proves the ancient Jewish connection to Israel)…
The launch of the deal of the century (i.e., US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan) and the new disgrace on Dec. 6, 2017, was a dramatic turning point, both in the mutual relations between the American administration and the Zionist project and in the war against the Palestinian people, when [US President Donald Trump] recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital (see note below –Ed.) and afterwards transferred the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to the Palestinian capital in May 2018. Afterwards, on Jan. 28, 2020, the official announcement came of his ominous deal, which was rightly considered a practical completion of the rest of the clauses of the ominous [Balfour] Promise.
Corrupt Israeli Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu expressed this after President Trump transferred the American Embassy to Jerusalem, when he compared the real estate dealer to Lord Balfour who gave the ominous promise, and to former US President [Harry] Truman because he was the first to recognize Israel as a state. He also compared him to Persian King Cyrus [the Great], who returned the exiled Jews to Jerusalem…
The leaders of the Zionist colonialist state go to great lengths to praise the new Balfour and his place in history, while he is breaking down the walls of the official Arab system and dragging many states into recognition of the Zionist state at the expense of the Palestinian national rights and interests (refers to Israeli peace agreements with the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan; see note below –Ed.).”