PA daily columnist calls the Balfour Declaration “the great sin”
Op-ed by Yahya Rabah, columnist for the official PA daily and a member of the Fatah Leadership Committee in Gaza:
“The decision of the British House of Commons to vote in favor of Palestine at the UN Security Council and in favor of recognizing the State of Palestine according to the June 4 [1967] borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, as a full UN member state, is a very important decision, even though it is not binding upon the British government. This decision has deep meaning. [It signifies] that although one hundred years have passed since the great sin known as the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration), and despite the injustice done to the Palestinian people and the generalizing and flawed Israeli Zionist claim that the Islamic State issue has left no room for Palestine (i.e., on the international agenda and discourse), the Palestinian issue still occupies the first place. It occupies the first place not only from a moral standpoint, but also from a political one: The crime will neither die nor benefit [its perpetrators], and its perpetrators will be punished. The crime will not be forgotten, and its perpetrators must atone for it. Israel, the bastard offspring of an international conspiracy, will not escape its responsibility no matter how hard it tries – for when it looks back, it will discover it has not come far, and is still within the reach of historical judgment.”
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.
“The decision of the British House of Commons to vote in favor of Palestine at the UN Security Council and in favor of recognizing the State of Palestine according to the June 4 [1967] borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, as a full UN member state, is a very important decision, even though it is not binding upon the British government. This decision has deep meaning. [It signifies] that although one hundred years have passed since the great sin known as the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration), and despite the injustice done to the Palestinian people and the generalizing and flawed Israeli Zionist claim that the Islamic State issue has left no room for Palestine (i.e., on the international agenda and discourse), the Palestinian issue still occupies the first place. It occupies the first place not only from a moral standpoint, but also from a political one: The crime will neither die nor benefit [its perpetrators], and its perpetrators will be punished. The crime will not be forgotten, and its perpetrators must atone for it. Israel, the bastard offspring of an international conspiracy, will not escape its responsibility no matter how hard it tries – for when it looks back, it will discover it has not come far, and is still within the reach of historical judgment.”
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.