Balfour is “drunkard and vilest of rats” in Palestinian school girl’s poem
A female student recites a poem entitled "The Balfour Promise"
Girl: "Allah is witness that your words are a lie.
What did you [Balfour] write and by what right do you transgress, when the land is honor, O drunkard that you are!
Do you think that I have forgotten my identity, and that I will continue to be deluded?
Do you think that I have forgotten my cause, O vilest of rats, O terrified one that you are!
I am here until I will liberate my mosque. The volcano of my right is erupting in [my] heart."
[Tal Al-Rabia Elementary School for Girls, Facebook page, Nov. 3, 2024]
The first part of the poem is missing in the Facebook post. The beginning of it reads:
"May your right hand be paralyzed, [former British Foreign Secretary Arthur] Balfour, and may the misdeeds return and harm you.
You gave our land to one who has no right, and Allah is witness that your words are a lie."