R MacDonald
08-25-2004, 04:21 AM
[size=3]Here's a copy and the Israeli link (http://www.science.co.il/Balfour-Declaration.asp).
(emphases mine)
[color=blue]Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour [/color]
(1) A crystal clear acknowledgment of "existing non-Jewish communities" exists.
and
(2) An acknowledgment of the civil and religious rights of those said communities clearly exists. [/size]
None of which justifies this: (one of many)
Independent Investigation of the Jenin Camp Abuses (http://www.jenininquiry.org/)
Full Report Here (http://www.jenininquiry.org/Jenin%20Inquiry%20Report.pdf)
Jenin Victims Narrate Israeli Atrocities in Extraordinary Book
http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=2002123005580064
Or This:
Jenin 'massacre evidence growing'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1937048.stm
Eyewitness Jenin: Evidence of A Massacre
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/palestine/jeninmassacre/EyewitnessJeninMassacre.html
(emphases mine)
[color=blue]Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour [/color]
(1) A crystal clear acknowledgment of "existing non-Jewish communities" exists.
and
(2) An acknowledgment of the civil and religious rights of those said communities clearly exists. [/size]
None of which justifies this: (one of many)
Independent Investigation of the Jenin Camp Abuses (http://www.jenininquiry.org/)
Full Report Here (http://www.jenininquiry.org/Jenin%20Inquiry%20Report.pdf)
Jenin Victims Narrate Israeli Atrocities in Extraordinary Book
http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=2002123005580064
Or This:
Jenin 'massacre evidence growing'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1937048.stm
Eyewitness Jenin: Evidence of A Massacre
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/palestine/jeninmassacre/EyewitnessJeninMassacre.html